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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

After reading the article The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a change has occurred from the typical horror story to a violent and bloody legend. The original short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an example of a simple, yet mysterious fable in which Ichabod Crane acts as the protagonist. Ichabod becomes the victim of the feared headless horseman after believing the superstitious tales of this spirit preying in the night. The film that is supposedly based upon the tale provides a deceiving, yet compelling title of Sleepy Hollow, as one might assume that the film is a replay of the short story. The film and original tale differ in some aspects. the film has blood, gore and controversy while the story is a simple and descriptive place where an evil incident occurred. The gap between the story and the film is somewhat large, as the two are almost completely different.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF THE FILM SLEEP HOLLOW

In the film Sleepy Hollow, the story is like this: at the end of the 18th century, the police also adapted to the old way to criminals, they beat the criminals to force them admit to the crime. Young police called kapoor, Crane believed they should adopt to a scientific way. So he was not popular and was sent to a small town called sleepy hollow to handle with serial murder.

Sleepy hollow has a legend of "the headless horseman", but Crane didn’t believe it. As many people died and he witnessed the officer was killed by the headless horseman. He had to believed it. So he was determined to find out the truth.

After some investigation, Crane doubted that the Van Houten was the criminal.

At the same time, he fell in love with the daughter of Van Houten. Soon, he found that he wouldn't have to find the headless horseman, because the horseman had come. as many people was killed by horseman, he knew that Katrina’s mother is wizard, her father is a rich man, and her stepmother is daughter of poor man whose land was occupied by the Van Houten . This charming old woman had an affair with the will managers of the town. And, Crane found all the dead are related with property inheritance of the Katrina’s father. When Crane witnessed van was killed by the horseman in church, he misunderstood Katrina’s mother. He think Katrina’s mother manipulated the headless horseman. But in halfway he thought the real murderer was her stepmother. When her stepmother manipulated the headless horseman to kill Katrina he seized the key to manipulate the headless horseman from her stepmother. The key is skull of horseman and set horseman back to hell, before he left, the horseman dragged her stepmother together down to the hell. Crane and Katrina returned back New York and began a happy life.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF THE ARTICLE THE LEGEND OF SLEEP HOLLOW But In the original story, Crane loved the ghost stories and love the Katrina. Actually, he loved the wealth of the Baltus Van Tassel . But he has a rival Brom who is the hero of the country round, which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood. From his Herculean frame and great powers of limb, he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was universally know. Crane knew that he can’t win. So he became Katrina’s music teacher to be access to her. In the end part, when he left the Baltus Van Tassel’s party, he went across the forest. All the story of ghosts and