After a particularly rousing evening at the home of Mynheer Van Tassel, when Ichabod has spent the entire evening dancing with Katrina, he thinks he may have won her affections. A foil to Ichabod as well as his rival for Katrina’s hand, Brom Bones is also fun-loving, clever, and skillful on a horse. Unfortunately for Ichabod, he has a rival in Brom Van Brunt, often called Brom Bones because of his great physical strength. Ichabod is not solely interested in her charms: The narrative makes clear that his imagination surveys the munificent crops and livestock on the family farm and covets them as well. Ichabod is also smitten with Katrina Van Tassel, the pretty daughter of a well-to-do farmer. Ichabod, we learn, was an awkward, homely, gangling schoolteacher with too great an imagination: He fears that one night on his way home from gossiping and telling ghost stories with the Dutch wives, he might meet a ghost himself. It also takes the reader to Sleepy Hollow, where almost anything might have happened in 1790-the approximate date of the story, now become legend, of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. Washington Irving’s famous opening to this story, which first appeared in The Sketch Book in 1820, evokes the dreamlike, almost mystical quality of the Hudson River Valley. Luisterboek: 9 december 2010 Ebook: 2 oktober 2015 Bekijk meerAnalysis of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated courtship of Katrina Van Tassel has become a classic ghost story. Since this story’s first appearance in 1820, generations of readers, young and old, have thrilled to the Headless Horseman galloping through the haunted woods of Sleepy Hollow. Every night he rides through the woods to the scene of the battle in search of his head. This romantic rivalry climaxes one autumn night with the appearance of the legendary Headless Horseman, allegedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head to a cannonball during the Revolutionary War. Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt, the town rowdy, has already set his heart on marrying her.
This lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut fancies the idea of marrying the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer, but there is a problem with his plan. In the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane arrives to educate the children of the region.
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