We read it in English class years and years ago and I can't remember any more details
2006-07-13 21:25:58 · 10 answers · asked by Tom 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Rip van Winkle was a short story by Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. It was part of a collection of stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
The story, written while Irving was staying with his sister Sarah and her husband Henry van Wart in Birmingham, England, is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War.
A villager of Dutch descent escapes his nagging wife by wandering up Kaaterskill Clove near his home town of Palenville, New York in the Catskill Mountains. After various adventures (in one version of the tale, he encounters the spirits of Henry Hudson and his crew playing ninepins at the top of Kaaterskill Falls), he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep.
He wakes up 20 years later and returns to his village. He finds out that his wife is dead and his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he hails himself a loyal subject of George III, not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place and he is not supposed to be a loyal subject of any Hanoverian any longer.
The story is a close adaptation of "Peter Klaus the Goatherd" by J.C.C. Nachtigal, which is a shorter story set in a German village.
It is also close to Karl Katz, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. This story is almost identical.
2006-07-14 05:23:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Rip Van Winkle
2006-07-14 06:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by sakeslug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rip Van Winkle
2006-07-14 04:31:42 · answer #3 · answered by mcbalt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too many versions of Rip Van Winkle here. One is when a man played bowling with a bunch of leprechauns and another is a story of a man who just slept for a hundred years under a tree. Which one would you prefer? If you want a complete story - go to wikipedia and search for Rip Van Winkle.
2006-07-14 04:29:26 · answer #4 · answered by Equinox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rip Van Winkle.
2006-07-14 04:27:00 · answer #5 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rip van Winkle
2006-07-14 04:28:22 · answer #6 · answered by goodwin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rip Van Winkle.
he falls alsleep next to a hauted tree or something and he fell alseep 4eva and he never woke up just like cinderila but she wakes up lol
2006-07-14 04:29:41 · answer #7 · answered by askanswerdiscover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't it :
Rip Van Winkle ??
2006-07-14 04:28:05 · answer #8 · answered by ♪σρսϟ яэχ♪ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't a fable. It's called "George W. Bush reading My Pet Goat".
2006-07-14 05:07:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
RIP VAN WINKLE
2006-07-14 04:27:14 · answer #10 · answered by Explorer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋