ipl-logo

The Devil And Tom Walker Analysis

690 Words3 Pages

“The Devil and Tom Walker” is by Washington Irving. Tom Walker and his wife fight a lot. One day Tom discovers an old Indian fortification and kicks a skull. He encounters the devil who offers Tom buried treasure for exchange of his soul. Tom declines the offer to upset his wife. In return, the wife decides to make the same deal, but dies in the proces. After a few days go by, he has to go find his wife because she hasn't returned. He then encounters the Devil again and agrees to the deal. Tom is now rich, and no longer has his sole. Tom regrets his decision and repents for his sin. There were three knocks at the door. A man dressed in all black with a black horse was there. The devil takes Tom away and Tom is never seen again. This short story's …show more content…

Tom loses his patience and piety, he tells the devil to just take him if he has just made a farthing. Someone came to the door with a black horse and a huge bag. They were standing there without saying a word. He waved Tom over to come with him. It was the Devil. Right before they left, the Devil told Tom to not say a word the whole trip there no matter what. Tom followed him and got onto the horse and they walked into the distance. After walking in silence for 12 hours, Tom turned to the Devil and asked where they were heading. The Devil stopped walking, reached into his mysterious bag and pulled out Tom's dead wife. He took out a knife and cut her up into a million pieces. The Devil then whispered, “your body's next.” Tom was shocked and terrified, he froze. A few more hours of walking went by, and Tom then got the nerve to speak again, “why were you carrying my dead wife?” The Devil glared at Tom again but this time he didn't do anything. They finally reached their destination. It was very dark and muddy in the area. The Devil took out two flashlights and gave one to Tom. He told Tom to look around if he dared. Tom got off the horse,

Show More
Related

  • Tom And Rodeo Case Study

    1068 Words  | 5 Pages

    He pick up the fork and looked at it for a while and said “I already have this kind of a fork” and threw it. The fork hit a rock and opened up a secret cave that rose from the ground. In that secret cave was Tom’s fifth grade math teacher Mr. Heck. Tom wanted revenge from the fifth grade when Mr. Heck gave him a F on his chapter 6 test that he knew he deserved an A. So Tom snapped his fingers sent a herd of balls after him and out of nowhere a helicopter came to save Mr. Heck because his son was picking him up for his doctors appointment. When Mr. Heck got on the helicopter he says

    Read More

  • Chasing Lincoln's Killer Sparknotes

    682 Words  | 3 Pages

    While President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in his chair in the president's booth, John Wilkes Booth decided to kill lincoln. John hid behind the curtain that was located right next to the front door which was near the president's booth. While John was hiding behind the curtain the devil came up next to him and was whispering in his ear to shoot Lincoln even more than Booth already wanted to. When Booth shot Lincoln in the head he didn’t even fill it. As soon as Booth shot him Booth left immediately.

    Read More

  • Sir Ceidric Robins Satire

    250 Words  | 1 Pages

    One day a brave young man called Sir Cedric Robins wanted to get rid of the Devil once and for all. The young man wanted to do this so he would do no harm to anyone because the heartless Devil had killed his mother, father, grandpa and grandma. Cedric was an only child so that

    Read More

  • How Does Steven King Tell The Story The Man In The Black Suit

    1350 Words  | 6 Pages

    A tall man comes up and starts talking to Gary. As they talk Gary notices there is something off about the man. Realizing he isn’t human he sees his eyes and notice they are just fiery red no pupils, as well his fingers weren’t normal they were like long yellow claws, lastly, he noticed the man was in a three-piece suit that had no trace of him walking in the woods it was as clean or as pristine as if it was just bought. Gary concludes that the man is no man he believes it to be the devil walking among them. The Devil starts to tell Gary that his mother was dead she had died from a bee sting just like his brother.

    Read More

  • Similarities Between The Devil And Daniel Webster

    519 Words  | 3 Pages

    Do you want to sell your soul? If so you might want to rethink your choice. In “The Devil and Tom Walker”, Tom Wa;ler is a miserable man who has troubles with his wife. One day, he is walking in the woods and comes upon Old Scratch who is able to make all of his problems go away. But he isn’t careful with his words and Scratch comes back for revenge.

    Read More

  • Greed In Washington Irving's The Devil And Tom Walker

    645 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Devil and Tom Walker The Devil and Tom Walker is a short story that was written by Washington Irving depicting Tom Walkers greed. Near a swamp in the 1700’s, lived a grumpy man named Tom Walker and his wife, who was also a grumpy hag. They were both greedy, so greedy that they would even try to trick and cheat each other. All they did was argue and bicker about money and wealth.

    Read More

  • Examples Of Greed In The Devil And Tom Walker

    429 Words  | 2 Pages

    The devil told Tom he knew a place where there were mountains of treasures that was buried someplace. Tom didn’t want to rush and proceed on with the offer about the treasure the devil had offered him. Then Tom makes his decision and goes and sells his soul to the devil

    Read More

  • Character Analysis Of Tom Joad In John Steinbeck's Grapes Of Wrath

    265 Words  | 2 Pages

    After the truck ride, he finds Jim Casy. Jim is sitting on the road when Tom finds him. He then tells Tom he has quit preaching because of the things he has done. He then tells Tom about how he thinks when death comes, souls join one big soul. However Tom shoots this idea down and really doesn't care.

    Read More

  • The Role Of Injun Joe In The Grapes Of Wrath

    493 Words  | 2 Pages

    On the way, Tom meets Huck but studiously looks away. Both wonder if anyone else has noticed their strange behavior. Tom spies Injun Joe in the crowd and is scared. Someone in the crowd shouts that Muff Potter is coming towards the graveyard, and everyone decides that they should not allow him to get away.

    Read More

  • Lidtke Mill: A Short Story

    659 Words  | 3 Pages

    Don starts walking to the figure, he is very scared but he needs to find Dave. When Don gets to see the shadow up close he is amazed by what he sees. Nothing, only a shadow. Don starts walking around he hears a faint voice in the distance. He starts walking in the direction of the sound, and he hears a spooky voice coming towards him.

    Read More

  • Comparing Romanticism In The Devil And Tom Walker

    619 Words  | 3 Pages

    Washington Irving wrote many wonderful romanticism stories. One of these stories, “The Devil and Tom Walker”, involves a man, making a deal with the Devil. It begins when the elderly man, Tom Walker, walks through a marsh one day instead of his usual route home through the town. He walked in the marsh until water seeped into his shoe, and he sat down to drain the water, and saw a black man, who he later found out was the Devil, sitting on a stump, looking at him. They talked for a while, until Tom asked the Devil, “‘The upshot of all which is, that, if I'm not mistake not,’ said Tom, sturdily, ‘you are he commonly called Old Scratch’.

    Read More

  • Tom Benecke Short Story

    861 Words  | 4 Pages

    They got in the car and the driver asked where to and Tom Benecke whispered to the taxi driver follow the yellow paper that is flying in the sky. He did tell his wife that he had lost the paper so he tried to keep it low. After about ten minutes it got real dark and the taxi driver told Tom Benecke that he could not see so that if wanted to follow that yellow paper. That Tom Benecke would have to give him directions.

    Read More

  • Comparing Death And Loman In Flanders

    667 Words  | 3 Pages

    One morning, at a tavern in Flanders, three men sit around a table consuming drink after drink. These men cannot resist the temptation of the devil seeing that they often gamble, drink, swear, flirt, and go to brothels. As a cart passes by the tavern, the men listen carefully to the sound of a bell. One of the men yells for his serving boy to ask who corpse is in the cart. Without leaving the tavern, the serving boy reports that the corpse was a friend of theirs and that Death took his life during the night.

    Read More

  • Persuasive In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

    750 Words  | 3 Pages

    It was a Saturday morning and Tom was stuck with the chore of whitewashing the fence. All the boys in town were out playing and swimming until Jim came by. Tom tried to trade the whitewashing job for getting water from the well. Jim denied and then later Ben Rodger came by acting like a steamboat captain. Tom was able to get Ben intrigued

    Read More

  • Huckleberry Finn Chapter Summary

    450 Words  | 2 Pages

    Tom and Huck decide to go the graveyard at11 o'clock. After a few minutes they see three men there.joe fought dr with knife but when Muff is witless joe put the knife in muff's hand.finally Muff go to the joil.one hot summer Tom and joe Harper go to Mississippi river. They watch the boats and fish and talk suddenly they decide to go to down the river to Jackson'Island by boat. They walk,swim,talk and swim again but at night Tom said, i go to home last night . On sunday morning when other people go to the church .the

    Read More

More about The Devil And Tom Walker Analysis

Open Document