2006-07-25 00:01:46 · 2 answers · asked by Elizabeth[Got it ALL] 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The story is set in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York in a sequestered glen called Sleepy Hollow, around the year 1790. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a priggish schoolmaster from Connecticut who is scared away from town by Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, his rival in love for the hand of eighteen-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, daughter of Baltus Van Tassel and a fifth-generation Dutch immigrant herself. The legend featured in the story is that of the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a Hessian trooper who lost his head to a cannon-ball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head."
The denouement of the fictional tale is set at the bridge in the real location of the Old Dutch Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown), adjacent to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. The characters of Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel may have been based on local residents known to the author. The character of Katrina is thought to have been based upon Eleanor and her name comes from Eleanor's aunt Catriena Ecker Van Tassel.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" follows a tradition of folk tales and poems involving a supernatural wild chase, including Robert Burns's Tam O' Shanter (1790). With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is the earliest American work of fiction to still be read widely today.
2006-07-25 02:43:44 · answer #1 · answered by Jessica H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ichabod meets headless horseman.
Ichabod 1, headless horseman 0
BTW, it's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", not Sleeping
2006-07-25 00:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋