<span>Never give up. is your answer.
Note that, even though the mission is almost impossible, the character "<em>never gives up trying</em>" to accomplish it, which means that "Never give up" is the theme of the story.
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Answer:
In Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane and Abraham Van Brunt (AKA Brom Bones) both compete for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy landowner. The rivalry between the two men and the pranks Brom Bones plays on Ichabod all lead to the ill-fated events of the story, in which Ichabod is frightened away from the town by the living embodiment of a local legend, the Headless Horseman. The two men are as different as can be, and Irving makes sure to exaggerate these differences in his descriptions of each character.
Explanation:
D.its a flashback...foreshadowing is knowing something in the future