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This 3 page paper explores the rivalry between Ichabod Crane and Brom van Brunt in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." It also explores their relationship with Katrina van Tassel, and contrasts them with one another. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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entertained. This paper discusses the story, its hapless "hero," Ichabod Crane, his rival Brom Van Brunt, the lovely Katrina Van Tassel, and how the two men relate to each other.
Discussion Washington Irving was able to capture the feel of upstate New York in a way no other writer has ever done. When he describes the town of Sleepy Hollow,
he says that there is a "drowsy, dreamy influence [that] seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. ... Certain it is, the place still continues
under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie" (Irving, 1992). Irving tells
us that the people of the village see things, "hear music and voices in the air," and live in an area that "abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight
superstitions" (Irving, 1992). The ghost-in-chief of the spirits that haunt the region is the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a Hessian trooper killed in the Revolutionary War (Irving, 1992). In
two paragraphs, Irving gives us a picture of a mystical land where anything can happen, and also puts in a fearsome specter to make us shiver. But the land is
also beautiful, fruitful, and peaceful, and that more than the ghost is what we think of when we read about the lush farms, the rich harvests and the happy people
who live there. Into this tranquil scene comes Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, who sticks out like a sore thumb. But he is also about to enter a region where
he is likely to "inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions" (Irving, 1992). He is thus indirectly warning us
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