The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Essay

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I do not know about you, but I like my reads to have content of all things that I love. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow contains just that. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow will have you sleeping with your night light on, in awe of male ego battling for ones true love, and giving you a piece of history as well.
Washington Irving being influenced by a neighborhood friend by the name of “Bugbee” of fairy tales was only the beginning of what filled his imagination. “when I was very young, I had irrepressible flow of spirits that often went beyond my strength. Everything was a fairy tale to me” (Irving 1823). Washington Irving’s written work did in fact reflect this. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is based on a headless horseman who rides at night on the grounds …show more content…

By seeing and hearing the horror of war growing up, it will definitely stick with you wherever you go. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was affected by this because it has some history with the revolution. The headless horseman in the story had no head because he lost it in battle in the revolutionary war. Said to where the soldiers were buried, the headless horseman rode his horse on these grounds at night. After his death, the headless horseman came back as a ghost in search for his head riding the grounds, where him along with all the revolutionary soldiers were buried. Growing up in such a terrible war infected environment Washington Irving wrote a little bit of his childhood in his story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow contains this history in which what Washington Irving grew up somewhat experiencing.
Washington Irving’s written work, The legend of Sleepy Hollow is amazing and I recommend to anyone and everyone. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow contains an eerie tale of a headless horseman, a piece of romance who had two men by the names of Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt going head to head with one another for a woman’s love, and a piece of history is also incorporated because it is somewhat related to what Washington Irving went through as a child being brought up through the times of the American Revolution (Rust

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