Unraveling the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

My favorite story out of the three was “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. In the story, Ichabod Crane tries to Win Katrina Van Tassel’s heart, but he is also competing against the alpha-male of the town: Brom Bones. The town is known for the legend of the headless horseman. Ichabod was rejected by Katrina, and while he was walking home, he encountered the “headless horseman”. We later find out that it was most likely Brom Bones playing a trick on Ichabod to further win Katrina.

Overall, I enjoyed the story because it was facile to comprehend as well as it was consistently enthralling to me. It never had a dull moment and it was fun to read about a town that isn’t of the traditional setting. It had a background containing many legends and old stories

It was so easy to foretell that, of course, the robust, dreamy, Casanova gets the girl that every male in town is trying to woo. What I would have wanted was a series of even more turn of events than there already was by having Katrina fall in love with Ichabod, but regardless, I still very much enjoyed the story. I have never read something like this content before. This type of writing is eminently creative and I wish I would’ve run into more texts like this because I am fond of reading about fictional things like the Irving

The main face of it was that it was entertaining. “All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon, now came crowding upon his recollection. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. He had never felt so lonely and dismal.” This quote right here is an example of how Washington Irving kept it interesting and also had the reader wanting more and waiting to see what would occur next. The only weakness that I can think of is the fact that it was somewhat predictable, but only in the way that the alpha male gets the girl everyone wants to be with. Other than that, it was a primarily strong story and kept my attention. Furthermore, I think the writer’s main purpose was to entertain! It didn’t exactly seem like something that you would take a life lesson from or that there was a different meaning behind it. The best category it would fit into would be fantasy. I say that because the setting is in a town where it holds a number of legends as well as different creatures, and the legend of the headless horseman was the main one.

The conflict in the story was that Ichabod wanted to be with Katrina but Brom Bones was standing in the way of his goal. Ichabod was a lonely schoolmaster with an uneventful life. Whereas Brom had all the ladies and was always ready for a fight. Katrina noticed the