1,004 likes. Besides droves of Loyalist rangers and British light infantry, Hessian Jägers—renowned sharpshooters and horsemen—were among the raiders who often skirmished with Patriot militias. This quiz and worksheet set allows you to check your knowledge of Ichabod's role in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow along with the events of the story. Join Facebook to connect with Brom Bone and others you may know. Another example of names serving as a powerful descriptor of characters or places. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. In 2006, a large sculpture depicting the Headless Horseman chasing Ichabod Crane was placed along Route 9 in Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown, New York. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Brom Bones animated GIFs to your conversations. In the initial battles between Ichabod and Brom, the result seems to remain a draw—even if Brom Bones has the upper hand in terms of dreaming up practical jokes to play. The stage is set and any obstacles to a potential battle, such as Katrina’s parents, are swept aside. On the Far North Coast of New South Wales lies the Sleepy Hollow rest stop. Again, Knickerbocker is not quite an omniscient narrator—there are things he doesn’t know, which paradoxically makes us more willing to accept his narrative as realistic. In the story, names tend to stand in for themes and characteristics—here, the town as a place that time forgot. Several paragraphs are taken up with this description, as seen through the eyes of Ichabod. The suggestion is that Katrina has rejected him, that he now knows he has no chance with her. The traditional Dutch food on offer adds another touch of tradition and age to the story. Again, Ichabod interprets his own reality in terms of the stories he’s heard, especially that of Brom Bones. The description of Katrina portrays her largely as another of Ichabod’s material desires, as something to be consumed—and ultimately as something to fight for. And even if the tale of the horseman isn’t “true,” it’s become solidly incorporated into the tradition and legacy of the town—and, by extension, of the budding American nation. Both stories are often paired together in books and other representations, and both are included in surveys of early American literature and Romanticism. While all the humans are one-dimensional characters (see, um, any "Character Analysis"for proof), it feels like there is a whole world of animals with some major behind-the-scenes drama in Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod, for his part, believes too earnestly in the reality of the ghost stories to make up his own tales. The author, Washington Irving, writes "From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally known." It also connects Ichabod to another knight-errant who’s imagination overpowers him: Don Quixote. Usually viewed as omens of ill-fortune for those who chose to disregard their apparitions, these specters found their victims in proud, scheming persons and characters with hubris and arrogance. He is good-looking and fun-loving. Van Ripper’s attitude about school stems from the ambiguous position of Cotton Mather’s book, as both a repository of “book-knowledge” and of irrational supernatural tales. [3], During the height of the American Revolutionary War, Irving writes that the country surrounding Tarrytown "was one of those highly-favored places which abound with chronicle and great men. Sleepy Hollow (2020), a single by Hip-Hop artist Trippie Redd, An adaptation was broadcast on September 19, 1947 on. A letter from Merwin Irving was endorsed in Irving's handwriting. Afterward, some of the older guests gather around. His ability to “swallow” stories whole also helps to explain why he’s unable to rid himself of them afterward and continues to be afraid. A physically frail man, he hungers for wealth but lacks the means to attain it. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Ichabod, once again, can’t help but consider nature not in its passive beauty but in terms of what it can offer him—particularly if he can win the battle for Katrina. Irving's narrator concludes the story, however, by stating that the old Dutch wives continue to promote the belief that Ichabod was "spirited away by supernatural means", and a legend develops around his disappearance and sightings of his melancholy spirit. The Revolutionary War certainly caused a great deal of death and destruction, but the “authentic historians” also chronicle entirely imaginative affairs.