Rip van winkle

✔️A short story by Washington Irving

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Washington Irving

1. The first American writer to be recognized and read by Europeans.

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2. A critical figure in the development of an American literary consciousness.
3. The first to find a literary identity in a country without its own cultural
heritage.
4.A writer of the School of Knickerbockers.
5. A man of his time rather than for all times, describing and recording his
world.
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6.The first American professional writer.

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7. The first writer who wrote biographies and history for entertainment.

8. He popularized the short story and improved it with his own peculiar emphasis on
setting, tone , and finish.

9. He has always been praised for his style, for few have achieved such a high finish.

10. His style is usually urbane, charming, graceful, witty, and melodious.
 It was not easy to be the first professional
American writer.

1. There were no clear literary and cultural identities

in the new world then.
2. Men were judged by the gun, and the axe, and
women by the lipsticks.
3. Literature was made for the people who had time
and money, so was the profession of a writer.
 Washington Irving: life

• 1. Born in New York in 1783, named after George Washington the hero of the new country.

• 2. The eleventh child, growing up in a religious family, softened by a good library and cultural activities
of his brothers.

• 3. Reading law from 1799-1804 and admitted to the bar in 1806.

• 4. A family-financed tour of Europe in 1804-1806 ---his substitute for Columbia College.

• 5. Falling in love with Judge Hoffman’s daughter Matilda Hoffman when he was 24, and saddened by
he death when she was 17 ( He remained single all his life.)
 Washington Irving: Works

• 1. A History of New York from the Creation of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (1809) (
by
Diedrich Knickerbocker).
2. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. ( 1819-1820) Of 33 essays and stories, only 4 are
about America, and 2 of them are still read: Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow).
3. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
(1828).
4. A Tour on the Prairies（ 1835) .
5. Life of George Washington( 1855-1859).
Rip van winkle

Rip van winkle: Summary

✔️Rip Van Winkle, short story by Washington Irving, published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20.
Though set in the Dutch culture of pre-Revolutionary War New York state, the story of Rip Van
Winkle is based on a German folktale.

✔️Wander amiable farmer

✔️The Catskill mountain
✔️Group of dwarfs
✔️Drink liquor
✔️Fall asleep (20 years)
✔️Face with changes
Rap van winkle : setting

✔️ “Rip Van Winkle” is set in the years before and after the American
Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York’s Catskill
Mountains where Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American villager, lives.

✔️Even though the story was first published in 1819, it was set almost
50 years5 before.
⭕When did the story Rip Van Winkle take place?

A short story set in the Caiskill Mountains in New York

sometime between 1750 and 1799; published in 1819.
⭕What town did Rip Van Winkle live in?

Catskill
Rip was a real personage, and the Van Winkles were a
considerable family in their day.
✔️ An idle
✔️good-natured
✔️ happy-go-lucky fellow
he lived, presumably, in the village of Catskill, New
York and began his long sleep in 1769.
⭕What best describes the setting of Rip Van Winkle?
A village and surrounding countryside in New York.
Rip van winkle : Characters

 Rip Van Winkle is the protagonist; he falls asleep in the

Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later.
 Dame Van Winkle is Rip's nagging wife.
 Henry Hudson is a famous explorer whom Rip meets in
the mountains.
 Peter Vanderdonk is the oldest man in the village and
the only one to recognize Rip when he returns.
 Judith Gardenier is Rip's daughter; she takes him in
after his return to the village.
 Diedrich Knickerbocker is a historian who narrates Rip’s
story.
Rip van winkle : Comedy or
Tragedy?

Rip Van Winkle" is a comedy, as is

indicated by the story's happy ending and
Rip's easygoing and lackadaisical
personality.
Rip van winkle : Theme
Washington Irving's story ''Rip Van Winkle'' has three major themes.
One theme is freedom, or the ability to make your own decisions.
Another theme is progress, or moving forward. The final theme is
change, which happens when things become different.
Rip van winkle : what does Rip van
symbolize?

He represents that world of the Catskill Mountains

that used to exist prior to the outbreak of the
Revolutionary War but which has changed beyond
recognition in the twenty years that Rip has been
asleep.
Does the story of Rip Van Winkle
teach us anything what?

The moral of Rip Van Winkle is that life goes on. It

doesn't wait for anyone. If, like Rip Van Winkle, a
person decides to take a nap, life will pass.
What message is the author trying
to convey in Rip Van Winkle?

Irving conveys the theme of freedom versus tyranny

throughout the story. Rip Van Winkle seeks nothing more
than the freedom to be his kind, simple self and to live
the idle life he wants to live. His freedom and good
nature endear him to his fellow villagers, whom he is
happy to help and to pass the time with.
 Why is Rip Van Winkle so popular?

Rip Van Winkle has become a byword for the

idea of falling asleep and waking up to find
the familiar world around us has changed.
 What was the only problem with Rip van
winkle?

The only problem with Rip was that he was

very lazy. He did no work on his own farm
and just idled away his time. His fences were
falling to pieces. His cow was going astray.
 Sources:

Greatnotherncatskills.com

Wikipedia.com

enotes.com

Literariness.org