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Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

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Washington Irving known as a story writer gave a picture of a fascinating character in his short story. The character is called Rip Van Winkle. The tale was in a Dutch village, where settlers believe in superstition and ghost tales and sits to discuss politics. For instance, Irving said, “for I know the vicinity of our old Dutch settlements to have been very subject to supernatural events and appearances” (Hughes 198). Irving went on to describes how a voyager on Hudson sees the geographical beauty Kaaskill mountains (197). From reading the story, I observed Irving reveal Rip as a storyteller, social, kind, a famous man loved in his community, especially by children and dogs. He goes an extra mile to assist others unfortunate he forgets about
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