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A 5 page paper which examines how the physical or metaphorical separation or attachment to Europe and or America is evident in these two works. No additional sources are used.
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America has sought to forge an identity separate and distinct from Europe. This proved to be a formidable task, to be sure, as Americans often found themselves being portrayed
as little more than ruffians or gauche Europeans by their more cultured and sophisticated counterparts across the sea. However, as the years went by, it became increasingly evident that
ties between America and Europe, though occasionally strained, could never be completely severed. This ambivalent relationship between Europe and America and the alternating separatism and attachment was considered by
two of Americas most accomplished writers and essayists, Washington Irving and Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel L. Clemens. In their texts, The Sketch Book: The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories and The Innocents Abroad, Irving and Twain offered physical and metaphorical perspectives, which clearly illustrated that despite arguments to the contrary, America and Europe were
two halves of a single puzzle. The Sketch Book is a collection of 33 Washington Irvings short stories and essays. The volume opens appropriately with an essay entitled "The
Voyage," in which Irving observes, "To the American visiting Europe, the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative. The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments
produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions. The vast space of waters that separates the hemispheres is like a blank page in existence.
There is no gradual transition, by which, as in7 Europe, the features and population of one country blend almost imperceptibly with those of another. From the moment you
lose sight of the land you have left, all is vacancy until you step on the opposite shore and are launched at once into the bustle and novelties of another
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