Literature: the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Katrina Van Tassel

A. Compare and contrast the characters of Ichabod stretch and Brom caravan Brunt. esteem active their job/social class position. Think about the diametric ways that they behave in general, and also toward Katrina Van Tassel. Think about how they experience each other. In the b only ify the legend of sleepy hollow, the story takes place in lower region of New York in a township called Tarrytown. In the city of Tarrytown the town of Sleepy Hollow had veritable its name, for all the haunted spooky things that happened there, and the legendary story of the Headless horse fancier. there are several important characters that make up the story.Two with very(prenominal) important significance are Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt. Ichabod Crane was a native from Connecticut who had moved to Sleepy Hollow to instruct the children of the Vicinity. He was a tall, lanky man who if looked at bared a comparison to a scarecrow. He was a superstitious school teacher of the children in the town. He was a smart, soon enough easy lived man. Scholar man yet looked like he was famished and had not eaten in weeks, skinny grand lanky arms and legs small head with big eyes. Brom Van Brunt on the other hand had bad intentions. He was a muscular nigh looking man who was very strong.He only cared about money, inheritance, and grave stories to scare people of the headless horseman. The one thing Brom Van Brunt and Ichabod Crane had in common was they both valued to win the hand of Katrina Van Tressel. The only child of the Dutch farmer. Both men were after the comparable thing but behaved very differently. Ichabod was genuine, where as Brunt was not. He only wanted power and money. He wasnt after love like stretch out was. He thought by coition scary stories of the headless horseman galloping through the woods hunting down people and killing them.Brunt enjoyed telling these stories to scare crane while he would be out alone in the woods. They both tried to steal the hea rt of Katrina. The difference betwixt the characters is Crane had been kind and smart and his scholarly ways helped earn wish from Katrina, who he had wanted to ask him to marry her. Where as brunt only had his hard-boiled macho man ways which didnt score much trustingness or liking from Katrina. There social classes were completely different. Crane was smart, kind, hail-fellow-well-met and helpful with the children. He had gained respect from the mothers in town. Brunt didnt he was the town rowdy. Wasnt as mature as Crane was.