By the time ‘‘Rip Van Winkle’’ was written, subsistence culture was on the run; it would finally be eradicated when cheap transport, in the form of canals and railroads, opened up the interior to the marketplace. But in Irving’s vision, the good people of the village have little u...
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. Read Rip Van Winkle: Analysis of Major...
As children, many readers have been told some version of the story of Rip Van Winkle before they ever get around to reading Washington Irving’s tale. Moreover, a number of theatrical adaptations have made the basic elements of the story familiar to many who have never read it. As a cons...
Rip Van Winkle's trainer Aidan O'Brien was full of emotion as he explained the problems that have given him so many sleepless nights these past few months.'This fellow has been through torture after a persistent infection affected all four of his feet in the spring,' said O'Brien.'I've...
Japanese director Shunji Iwai rudely tears up the phony promise of marriage and bourgeois life in “A Bride for Rip Van Winkle,” a cruel yet riveting tale of a young wife’s inexorable fall from grace once she succumbs to the Mephistophelean services of a shady Mr. Fix It. Artfully su...
‘S’ will be followed by two integers, st and nd in the same line. Character ‘C’ is followed by threeintegers, st, nd and x. It’s assumed that, 1 ≤ st ≤ nd ≤ 250000 and −105 ≤ x ≤ 105. The meaningsof these integers are explained by the code of Rip Van Winkle....
Rip Van Winkle's trainer Aidan O'Brien was full of emotion as he explained the problems that have given him so many sleepless nights these past few months.'This fellow has been through torture after a persistent infection affected all four of his feet in the spring,' said O'Brien.'I've...
“There have been so many changes in those two years and four months that I am beginning to understand how Rip Van Winkle must have felt,” Reagan joked, referring to the tale about the man who slept for 20 years and awoke to find a far different world. ...
‘S’ will be followed by two integers, st and nd in the same line. Character ‘C’ is followed by threeintegers, st, nd and x. It’s assumed that, 1 ≤ st ≤ nd ≤ 250000 and −105 ≤ x ≤ 105. The meaningsof these integers are explained by the code of Rip Van Winkle....
‘S’ will be followed by two integers, st and nd in the same line. Character ‘C’ is followed by threeintegers, st, nd and x. It’s assumed that, 1 ≤ st ≤ nd ≤ 250000 and −105 ≤ x ≤ 105. The meaningsof these integers are explained by the code of Rip Van Winkle....