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Rackham's Illustrations to Rip Van Winkle, www.artpassions.net. Web. 13 December 2010 |
The first comparison is the location of the stories. Both stories take place near the Hudson River north of New York City.
The second comparison is the nature of the stories. They are both supernatural in theme. For instance, Rip falls asleep with his view of the world one way only to find that it has changed drastically during his twenty year sleep. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod on a walk home is afraid of ghosts and witches coming to attack him. Both of these things are clearly things that would never happen yet each character is worried that it will.
Now let's look at the differences. The first is the different education and job experience that both characters had. Rip was brought up on a farm so he probably had little to no education. Since he was raised on a farm, he was obviously a farmer. Ichabod is a school teacher and probably had several years of education. These two characters had vastly different schooling and education.
The second difference is the way they survive in the end of the story. In Rip Van Winkle, Rip returns, after his twenty year nap, to find her daughter all grown up with a child of her own. When they realize that they are related, she takes him to their farm where they 'live happily ever after'. Ichabod is thought to have died at the Horseman's hands. But someone comes back to tell things differently. He was known to have moved to a far away country to become a politician.
In the end, we come to see that Irving wrote his stories with many differences and some comparisons.
Sources:
Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
Birmingham, England. 1820
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
Birmingham, England. 1820
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