Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Annotated Book With Teacher Edition Washington Irving

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" tells the tale of Ichabod Crane and his hapless attempt to win the coronary heart and hand of Katrina Van Tassel inside the context of a comical ghost story. Ichabod comes to Sleepy Hollow, New York, from his domestic nation of Connecticut, to be the schoolmaster of the village. Sleepy Hollow is a small, very quiet metropolis stated to be beneath some sort of appeal. Its residents all seem to move a bit slower, daydream a bit more, and be extra at risk of agree with in the supernatural. Sleepy Hollow, maybe because of this or maybe because its citizens are almost all descended from its authentic Dutch settlers, has more than its honest share of supernatural occurrences, or as a minimum testimony of them. Sleepy Hollow's maximum famous supernatural phenomenon is the ghost of the Headless Horseman, said to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannon ball during the Revolutionary War. The Horseman is visible most usually driving through the church, where nearby historians say he was buried. He is thought to be continually searching for his head. Ichabod is curious about this story, being in particular involved (and at risk of consider) in stories of the supernatural.