Props of Washington Irving
Washington Irving writes his books in such a way that he manipulates the reader into continuing to read the stories, much like when a child wants his candy. In the story “Rip Van Winkle”, his main character, who is really nice to other people and works for barely any money at all, later gets in a major tragedy. Rip Van Winkle gets drunk one night at a party. He falls asleep for 20 years in a barn and finally wakes up and realizes that everything has changed. His friends died in the war, his wife died, his dog is starving to death in his house that had caved in, and his daughter grew up and got married. In this story I think that Irving is saying that even the nicest people can get bad luck, and that this is what you get for helping people, He also has a very weird sense of humor.
In the story called Christmas, Irving just describes what Christmas is about for him. He thinks that it is a happy day to be thankful. The sun is shining, birds are chirping. His writing style is subtle, straightforward, serious and happy all at once.
Washington Irving’s best selling story wrote is called “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” The story is about a rumor that goes around that every night the Headless Horseman comes to sleepy hollow. The Headless Horseman has a rival and his name is Ichabod and he is a school teacher. The Headless Horseman appears at night to find his missing head that he lost during the war. I think that this myth got out by gossip and that is how I think started the legend.
His writing style I think cohesive to Hideyuki Kikuchi’s writing style. Hideyuki Kikuchi is the author who wrote vampire hunter D. Their writing styles are descriptive, and informative to the reader.
