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Use Of Foreshadowing In The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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First way that Mr.Washigton used foreshadowing in the story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” which was when Brom was telling a story about the headless horse man. Brom knew that Ichabod was scared when he told the story, Brom obviously did this to scare him and to get him away from Katrina because they both like her. Brom was the jock in the story, He was the kid who was good at sports, riding horses, and as well as throwing things that are heavy. Ichabod is a school teacher in this story. He felt like every girl liked him. Most people liked him because he was the only guy who was smart in the story and tall. Everyone liked him for the stuff he did, but brom didn’t. Why? Because Ichabod like the same girl as he did. Brom got pissed off because he saw Ichabod dancing with Katrina and when it was time to tell stories Brom decided to tell about the headless horse man and he knew that Ichabod would get scared. When the party was over Ichabod went and got on a horse as fast as he could. That’s when he was going through the bridge that Brom was talking about and so Ichabod got scared. Brom decided to take advantage of that, so he followed him and through a pumpkin at Ichabod knocked him down later on that day which was morning already. The horse showed up in town but Ichabod didn’t …show more content…

He told a story about a headless horse man and how he haunts people down and how the headless man kills them. The reason why he told this story was because of Ichabod. He did not like him at all especially when he was dancing with the girl he liked (Katrina). Brom just got jealous because he wanted to do that with Katrina. Katrina was the prettiest girl in town. She was rich and everyone wanted to be with her. Brom liked playing tricks on people so he decided to play a trick on

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