Skimming and scanning are not methods for narrowing a topic in a short amount of time. However, they can be useful methods for reading about a topic in a short amount of time. Skimming and scanning are good ways to get the general idea of a text. These strategies can be useful when you have to review large amounts of information and you need to establish whether the information is useful or not very quickly.
The description of setting in paragraph 7 of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is important to the theme of America's changing history in that it depicts Sleepy Hollow as a "drowsy" place caught in the past while great "currents" of change go on around it.
