Similarities Between The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow And Rip Van Winkle

Candy is set apart from the rest of the workers due to his old age and his strong bond with his dog who eventually was killed. Candy is first introduced as “a tall stoop-shouldered old man”(18), indicating to the audience he is old. Candy also has a hand injury which prevents him to do as much as the rest of the men are able to, making him feel isolated to certain things. Toward the beginning of the novella, Carlson suggested to Candy that he should kill his dog due to its old age. Candy cried desperately “‘No, I couldn’t do that.

His grandfather is solemn and kind, with a huge white beard and baldhead. After supper, Otto Fuchs, an Austrian cowboy, who tells him stories, teaches him how to throw a lasso, and has bought him a pony named Dude, immediately befriends Jim. Before bed, Grandfather reads in a resonant voice from the Bible for everyone in the household. The next day Jim begins to explore his new environment. Outside, sod houses and dugouts surround their frame house, and Jim looks out at the windmill, corncribs, and huge cornfield.

For example, when Brother was teaching Doodle to walk on his own, he struggled and “when he fell, I grabbed him in my arms and hugged him, our laughter pealing through the swamp like a ringing bell” (558). Brother is clearly a spectacular sibling. Not many people would have the patients to help teach a disabled kid to stand and walk, but Brother does. This just shows how loving Brother is towards Doodle. Another example is when Brother went and checked to see how Doodle was doing when he was little and sick, and when Doodle smiled at Brother a rush of relief spread throughout his body, “Mama,

Harper and Truman’s friendship grew over the years from their passion for Sherlock Holmes and the Rover Boys, They spent many summer afternoons wrapped in their mystery novels. As they grew older Harper and Truman decided to write stories of their own. Harper’s dad made this possible for them. Amasa Coleman Lee, Harper’s father, took care of Harper while owning The Monroe Journal, the town's newspaper. He naturally possessed a typewriter, bringing Harper and her best friend able to type their random

“Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!”—At the same time Wolf bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master’s side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back”. Rip met the strange man when he was trying to go back home and being the helpful person he was, decided to help the man with what he was carrying. The reason that this is important is because Irvine is telling readers that about most of the things that happened in the revolutionary

There is one character who shows this theme, Candy. Candy loss his dog due to old age and his dog was his only campaign and the only real happiness and family he had and without him he 's nothing. Candy said to George, “You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn 't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.

By: Cameron Morsovillo 8B #13 The Novel I read for the first quarter is “The Honest Truth” by Dan Gemeinhart and this novel plays more of a slow book and sometimes fast pace. This novel is very detailed and action packed with several main characters including Mark and his special dog Beau. They go on a adventure leaving home which leads them to wandering across the united states with his notebook and other things from his backpack but mainly his only friend there is his dog Beau. His family and friends are really worried sick about him and wondering when will he come home. It starts off in the beginning where Mark packs up his bags and leaves town with his notebook, camera, haiku poems, and of course his dog Beau.

Lennie, who is mentally handicapped, dreams of owning a rabbit hutch and taking care of rabbits as he loves small anmals to pet like mice. As a cause of his strong but innocent characteristics he accidently kills them while petting them. George takes care of Lennie and leads his child-like friend in contrast to living on his own and having a family of his own.When they arrive at the farm they get to know other workers who are different from the main characters; they do not have dreams and live a lonely and socially excluded life. While living there Lennie gets a puppy from one of the workers and the main characters are introduced to Curley, the son of the boss who is violent and aggressive and his wife who is often compared to a prostitute as she flirts a lot. Lennie and Curley also get into a fight which leaves Curley with a smashed hand.

I had ‘im too long” (Steinbeck 45). Carlson, one of the workers on the farm convinced Candy that it was to end the dogs suffering, so candy let go of the dog while Carlson took the dog outside. Candy did not want to kill the dog himself because he was to used to having him, he had him since he was a pup. Killing

The "Big Bad Wolf" from the Three Little Pigs has been very misunderstood. The wolf had no intention on hurting anyone this day. He had a bad cold and needed to go ask neighbors for medicine. All because of a few big sneezes he is now considered a monster. Fortunately, I will open your eyes to the real story The whole reason he is considered the "big bad wolf ' is because of a sneeze from his cold.

The book has a note and it says half-past two. Huck does not know what it means, but he knows that something is up. They find out the note meant that Sophia ran away to marry a Shepherdson at half-past two. Later, Huck’s slave reunites him with Jim, and he tells Huck about the raft and how he is being fed. He then goes into the woods and finds Buck and his cousin in a shooting with the

The new American hero (Just a quick look) Can you see the handsome young man sitting by my side, driving through the forest, behind the wheel of his decadent truck? Yes. I would trust him with my life (sip of vodka). We left Alan behind, at home, sleeping. Has any of you out there ever “driven through the forest” like we are doing?

Although George can be seen as caring to others he may be seen as controlling over what Lennie says and does. In chapter four, George goes off with the other farmhands to have fun and relax while he leaves Lennie alone back at the ranch. When Lennie goes off to pet his pup that Slim, one of the other farmhands, gave him, he sees someone else in the barn so he goes over and starts to talk with the stable buck, Candy.. When George found out what Lennie was talking about with a black guy, he scowled at Lennie and scolded him. "George scowled.