... uses imagery to help produce his masterpiece, "Rip Van Winkle."" Irving uses many descriptive adjectives while describing Rip's voyage into the Kaatskill mountains. Just before Winkle encounters the strange beings, he "lay musing at the scene of the cliffs scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun, and the shadows that nightfall casts- (23). Irving makes us feel like we are actually next to Rip, watching ... Van Winkle."" Washington Irving used Rip Van Winkle to symbolically foreshadow the mass awakening of America. The second half of the nineteenth century was dramatica...

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... Holland, France and Italy and frequently wrote using the creative tools of fiction to comment on historical background and events of American history. The setting of the story is somewhere in New England while the country was yet the province of Great Britain. The story tells us a lot about how the people where living back then. The people lived in diminutive villages, and each villager knew ... all their neighbors. The community worked as a whole, like an one big family ... 's repression. " but there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was-petticoat g...

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