The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820 was inspired by "A real Hessian soldier decapitated by a cannonball at the Battle of White Plains around Halloween in 1776."
Irving wrote a legend while living in England. Some scholars suggest that Irving's story may have been inspired by the folk tales he heard abroad. German, English and Scandinavian folk tales of headless knights chasing unhappy travelers have been told for generations.
The lesson of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is to keep superstitions from shaking you and overwhelming your reason.
The moral of the story is a small town, and the romantic competition between local bullies and school teachers culminates in horrifying night rides. In a small town called Sleepy Hollow, a skinny school teacher named Ichabod Crane comes to town.
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1: Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Chapter:2 Page:20
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2: You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. Chapter:3 page:36
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3. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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4: People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.
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5: I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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6: They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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7: Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Chapter number : 10 Page number : 117
