In this story, there seems to be something mythical and something factual. The myth is the long night sleep of Rip and the fact is the changing events of the revolution.
In this story, the author gives us an overall view on a life of a village in the Kaatskill mountains area. Rip Van Winkle is the central character of this story. Irving Washington builds Rip with a quite strange characteristic that makes people hard to understand. He is nice and kind in the eyes of the villages. He is not a lazy fellow; he is unafraid of hard work, he is always ready to assist everyone in his village but his own. Actually, he is really irresponsible to his family and in his wife's eyes he is the lazy and useless man.
The story becomes more interesting as from his awakening after a mythically long sleep. Everything in his village has been changed as he comes back. He does not recognize anything as well as no one recognizes him. So, what has happened to him and his village? And do you think that Rip really spends such a long sleep? Actually, through the character of Rip Van Winkle, the author likes to convey to the readers what has been changed after the American getting independent. We can feel that changing is a natural phenomenon "change of season, change of weather, every hour of a day have something changing." The author uses the image of village here as a representative for people living in the society and Rip is for some people who do not change accordingly or who do not recognize and catch up the changing of a new life. With some people, who lived before the revolution, are complacent ones. They very often sit together talking about nothing, about what happened in several months ago but they become the eager people who are with full energy in take part in the society business. People are on changing for getting a new life, a new culture.
Changing is essential of life and changing is for a better life. Everything is this universal is changing; nature, environment, society...and people have to change accordingly. But Rip does not change at all. The image of a long night sleep of Rip that is through twenty years reflects the speech of social changing and Rip gets nothing through such a long time of changing.
Integrity and maturity can be seen in many characters in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but one sensible character, Atticus Finch, stands out among the rest and parallels with “you” in Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If-.” The similarities connecting the details and ideas in Kipling’s poem and Lee’s character development of Atticus are found through compassion, bravery, and success.
The story “Rip Van Winkle” is about a character named Rip Van Winkle, a man who wanted nothing more out of life then to be able to do as he pleased and drink without responsibilities. One day he takes a trip into the Katskill mountains, which causes him to miss twenty years of his life. Rip wakes up after his sleep in the mountains and realizes that everything is different. He is faced with the life changing realization that he can no longer live he carefree life and must take some form of responsibility because the new villagers are hostile towards him due to his nature. In the end, Rip’s son stops the villagers from doing anything to Rip and this allows him to continue to live his carefree and chosen lifestyle.
After reading the story of Rip Van Wrinkle, the first expression I received as a message was change, and regardless of how one reacts or view circumstances, evolution will continue its natural process. In addition, when I considered how the author’s illustration of Rip Van Wrinkle need to find refuge in the time of (distress) his wife’s overwhelming nagging, I noticed how Wrinkles’ neglected to take charge of his empire; his home, children and wife, therefore, he did not confront his personal challenges to ease or eliminated his stress, instead, he walked away from his wife’s overwhelming nagging. In turn, another message the reading audience may convey is that, in order to witness radical change, sometimes interest and or participation is
In this fictional novella, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck sought to bring out the racial differences in George and Lennie's time. This racial diversity impacted African Americans socially and economically. Crooks is one example of an outsider, from this novel. He is an African American that grew up with white people in his childhood, but took a separate path, once realizing society's standard of segregation. Loneliness was a new feeling to Crooks; because he had always been compatible with other people. Even though being an outsider made him grumpy, he was forced to learn how to be independent. As a result, his space, while still giving others theirs.
The book takes place in the great depression where power was everything and if you were weak you were killed off by the strong so that they could survive. The characters understood this and tried to appear stronger and more powerful than each other to get by. Curly fights larger men, to appear strong. Crook threatens Lennie with the thought that George will leave him, and this is meant to scare him because Lennie has a special relationship with George that is irreplaceable. Carlson shoots Candy’s dog to show masculinity in a way and strip Candy of the one thing he really loves. And Curley's wife threatens to hang crooks to prove that even though she is a woman she still has a voice on the farm.
The small town was isolated from the rapid industrialization in the pre revolution era which influenced the Dutch to live a simple, traditional, slow life style. In this era Rip flourished. Rip was known and loved by the whole town because he would come to aid anybody at the first sound of distress. Despite of all the help he provided to the town he did not participate in his life at home, “Rip was ready to attend to any body’s business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his family in order, it was impossible,”(31). He neglected his farm because he believed it to be a useless piece of land and found a greater reward in helping others with their farm. He also neglected his children as they basically grew fatherless. Rip would seldom be at home due to what he describes as a shrew of a wife would be constantly barking orders at him to be participate more in the household and the children’s life.
Being lonely, bullied, and disabled are all problems in everyday life. People go through struggles like this just as Crooks did in the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. In this story, two main characters are searching for the American Dream. When they arrive to their job, they meet an African American man named Crooks. Crooks is mistreated by everybody around him and abandoned because of the color of his skin. Crooks faces many challenges throughout the story while dealing with the fact that he will never be treated the same as the others. The reader should feel sorry for Crooks because he faces many obstacles while being disabled, bullied, and lonely.
The townspeople speak to American culture everywhere and how it developed with the acknowledgment of becoming independent. Americans were attempting to keep its distance from the oppressor, pretty much as Rip would do everything in his power to escape his dominant
When I was younger the world was such an innocent, delightful place. People were kind, and always willing to help. As I have grown I have found that my views of the world and the people in it have changed; I don 't find it to be as innocent or delightful. I have slowly become to notice the wicked around me. Nathaniel Hawthorne 's "Young Goodman Brown" and Washington Irving 's "Rip Van Winkle" both convey changes in their views of the people and world around them.
In the first paragraph I chose to look at, it leads right into when Rip goes off for a walk to go squirrel shooting. Although the main reason for his walk was to get away for his nagging wife. The story could be interpreted in two different ways. One being that Rip was a lazy bum who did not take responsibility for his wife, children, and farm. He rather go out and drink and hang with his buddies at the tavern. I believe Irving specifically wrote this story for men. The story makes the wife sound like the wretched, nagging, old ugly woman and all she cares about is bothering her husband. This to me sounds all to familiar to what goes on still to this day. I believe the story makes Dame Van Winkle out to be the one in change of the power, but in reality I believe it was Rip.
In “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving he writes about a simple man, Rip Van Winkle, who does just enough to get by in life. He lives in a village by the catskill mountains, and is loved by everyone in the village. He is an easy going man, who spends most of his days at the village inn talking with his neighbors, fishing all day, and wandering the mountains with his dog to refuge from his wife the thorn on his side. On one of his trips to the mountains Rip Van Winkle stumbles upon a group of men who offer him a drink, and that drink changes everything for Van Winkle. He later wakes up, twenty years later, and returns to his village were he notices nothing is the same from when he left. He learns that King George III is no longer in charge,
Rip is viewed in the town as a person who helped everyone with anything, except his own family- “…he was a simple ...
Washington Irving's, "Rip Van Winkle" presented a tale of a "dreamer." Rip Van Winkle was a family man
Both Rip Van Winkle and the nature that will always surround him are the only two things that had the ability to prevail through insurmountable changes over this span of twenty years. They are mutually described with distinguished reverence upon the onset of the story, and continue this ideal throughout, thus making Rip more than the average protagonist. The story concludes with a tone of contentment in that the village people are happy to have Rip back, and more importantly Rip feels at home once again, amid the people and setting that are meant just for him.
Rip Van Winkle tells the story of a man who, on a trek into the Kaatskill mountains, mysteriously sleeps away twenty years of his life during the Revolutionary War. When he returns home, he finds that things have dramatically changed; King George no longer has control over the colonies, and many of his friends have either died or left town. At this point, the story reaches its climax, where Van Winkle realizes that his life may be forever changed.