BOOK REVIEW OF THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
The story is of a conservative Dutch community in a small town in New York. There is a legend in that town of a headless horseman who rides in the dark and disappears in a flash. The main characters in the story are Ichabod Crane he says that his name is appropriate because of his appearance and the fact that he is a schoolmaster, Katarina Van Tassel who used to be one of Ichabod’s singing students but now is being courted by two men one of them is Ichabod and Abraham Brunt who is the other guy courting Katarina he is described as handsome and big and was given the nickname Broom Bones.
The theme that comes into question the most in the story is the supernatural. This can be seen the story of the headless horseman. At the party most people seem to have their different encounters with the horseman. In the case of Ichabod it makes us question whether it was Abraham who was the headless horseman because anytime that story comes up we are told he just laughs about it hinting there is something more that is not being said. Ichabod believed in witchcraft he had books and would sing psalms when he thought they were near him.
The theme of war is evident in the whole story. It should be noted that the book was not written not to long after the American Revolution. Love in the book can be seen as war In the book it talks of knightly battle in order to will the girl i.e. Abraham wanted to fight Ichabod for Katarina love but because he could not do that he resorted to other methods like pranks which he may or may have not been the headless horseman at the end of the story.
This story might be told in a humorous manner but it does not paint a good image of people in particular the case of human selfishness. This is true in the case of Ichabod, he wants to marry Katarina in order to increase his material wealth it is even said he