Rip van Winkle

Rip van Winkle is the protagonist of a short story by American writer Washington Irving, based on the ancient German legend. Rip is a cheerful but lazy farmhouse in northern New York. Rip is always trying to help other people ignoring their homes and housework, and my wife is always swearing him. One day, Lip hunted in the Catskill Mountains, met a strange little guy with a barrel of wine. Rip helped the man take the barrel to a place on the hill where he saw similar people bowling. Lip drank wine and fell asleep

Twenty years later, Rip woke up and learned that his world was fundamentally changed. During his long sleep, most of his wife and his friends died, and the American Revolution is happening. At first no one believed his story, but one young lady explained that her father, Rip van Winkle, left 20 years ago. Rip later learned that the small character he saw was a ghost of Hudson River found by the crew of Henry Hudson.

The story of Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle is a man named Rip Van Winkle who lives in a small town in Hudson Valley. Everyone in the town likes Rip Van Winkle very much. Others think Van Winkle is "a gentle neighbor, obedient wife" (456). Even the animals the writer said, everyone saw Van Wenkel's good will, "Dogs do not yell at every part of the neighborhood" (457). In addition to his wife, everyone is very satisfied with Rip Van Winkle. "In the morning, afternoon and evening her tongue continues to move forward, and what he says and does is all a well-known eloquence" (458). The role of Rip Van Winkle depicts the American society persecuted by Britain.

"Rip Van Winkle" was in the village at the foot of Mount Catskill in New York before and after the American Revolutionary War, and Rip Van Winkle was a Dutch American villager who lived there. On the autumn day, Van Winkle took his dog and wolf in the mountain and ran away from his wife's jealousy. He heard his name come out and saw a man in an old Dutch costume; he brought a small bucket to the mountain and needed help. A man and a wolf entered the dent and Rip found a sharp sound source: a group of nine needle luxury dresses, a quiet, bearded man