Doug was in my regular 11th grade a few years ago, but after a few days in, I began questioning this placement. Here is Doug's essay on how "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" qualifies as a Romantic work. I will type it as he wrote it, wishing only for a scanned version to further illustrate. It's a good thing I showed them Disney's version (featuring the great Bing Crosby), or this kid would have had no hope at all:
Essay Question
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The archetypes of "sleepy hollow" helps the reader to understand what the characters in the story look and act like.
An example of a photogenic thought of the character The Headless horse man, well you know that this man has no head because he is a headless horseman, It's kind of common sence there, and he is wearing all black with a black long cape, the horse that this man is riding pictures ones mind that it would be a black horse infact a stalion.
In "Sleep Hollow" there is a gal that all the men are after she has blonde hair and has a very nice figure. The men try as hard as they can to get her attention. She wears a blue skirt and a white button up blouse.
The Sleepy Hollow gang is always drinking with the boys and in the story it describes them all to be out of shape and on the heavy side. The sleepy Hollow gang never really sleeps.
The archetypes of "sleepy Hollow" helped the reader to understand and have a good memory of what the characters look and act like.
And yes, he earned a high school diploma. And never set foot on an actual short bus.
3 comments:
"The sleepy hollow gang never actually sleeps." -Classic
Did he have a sloped forehead and rounded shoulders? I notice he checked out the blonde, however.
Holy crap. I weep for the future.
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