The Devil And Tom Walker And Rip Van Winkle

The similarity and connection existing between the two stories is the point of view in the two essays. The stories are both written in the first person perspective and that

The stories bear minor similarities and differences that the setting influences the plot development by era and place, main characters backgrounds, and environment /time frame of stories.

Their most obvious similarity is that both the narrator and the main character are driving to California from New York. They also have the same last name, Adams. Last, they both end up finding out that they were dead the whole time.

One similarity we see in Washington Irving’s stories is a similarity in setting. In both stories he speaks about mountainous areas. In the Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irving states “…on the opposite side the land rises abruptly from the water’s edge into a high ridge…” and in Rip van winkle he states “Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family…” Washington Irving grew up and lived in the Hudson River valley, located near the Kaatskill Mountains, which could be a reason for the similarities in his stories Rip Van Winkle and The Devil and Tom Walker. Another similarity in both stories are where Tom and Rip Van Winkle live. Tom lived in “…a forlorn-looking house that stood alone and had an air of starvation.” Rip lived in a house “which was sadly time-worn and weather beaten…”

Sometimes in literature, two different forms of writing tell two different stories with lots of similarities through characters. The book The Catcher and The Rye by J.D Salinger and the movie The Dead Poets Society directed by Peter Weir is a perfect example of two different literary works that share similarities through characters. The Dead Poet Society follows half a school year of 5 main characters at Welton Academy each with a different connection to Holden Caulfield the main character from The Catcher in the Rye. These 6 main characters are Neil Perry, the smart one, Richard Cameron, the sycophant, Todd Anderson, who is exceeding shy, Knox Overstreet, the romantic, and Charlie Dalton,

As people grow up, it is made apparent to them that the Devil is an evil and rather a clever person. The greatest example of the devil in action is when the devil tempts Jesus. As most know, the devil fails to get Jesus to do evil. Jesus is both human and divine while the main character of The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker, is a “meager, miserly fellow”. Unfortunately, Tom Walker is not Jesus so the reader must focus in on Washington Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker to see just exactly how and when the Devil won his game. Irving portrays to the reader that the devil cannot be beaten at his own game through setting, characters, and plot. As people have seen in sports, the setting of a game (where, when, weather, etc.) can have a big impact on the game. The same goes for The Devil and Tom Walker.

One of the many similarities which could be seen within these two short stories was the plot itself. In both “Wakefield” and “Rip Van Winkle”, both protagonist involved

The settings in the two stories are similar in the way that they both take place in a small town with a sense of poverty. The adults are portrayed as authoritative and the narrators feel trapped.

Not only do both writers have similarities in their life styles they both led similar lives .

Washington Irving was a legendary American author who began his literary career by submitting a plethora of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle. Irving often used “pen names” in attempts to connect the reader with the style of writing in almost each of his literary successes. His literary work consisted of biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, and Muhammad, satires such as “A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty” written under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, and folktales like “The Devil and Tom Walker”. Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker” demonstrates a folktale on the inclusion of the characteristics of stereotypes, unlikely events, and lessons to be

In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the author shows greed by the main character selling his soul for a large treasure, being a cheap and greedy moneylender, and the lack of the main character and his wife sharing the wealth between each other in order to show that people will do anything for money and become rich.

It is often that when we read great works of literature we come across similar themes. Authors use powerful ideas that they believe will move their readers and relate to them so they become engaged in the words written. William Shakespeare and Joseph Conrad were amazing writers of their times and even though their works were written almost 300 years apart, both, Othello and Heart of Darkness, have coinciding themes.

In the world, there are hundreds of thousands of writers, yet there are less than a third of that in different genres. Knowing that there are fewer genres than writers, it makes since that authors would know each other and share their ideas. Authors like Stephen King, whose stories are popular enough to produce as movies, admit to being inspired by other authors, such as H.P. Lovecraft. It's not just Stephen King who says he's inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, scholars and fans of Stephen King agree with him, saying there are trace elements of Lovecraftian horror in Stephen King's stories. Lovecraftian horror was named after H.P. Lovecraft, and is defined by Daniel Harms in his article “The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A guide to Lovecraftian Horror,” published in Chaosium in 1998, as “a subgenre of horror fiction that emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown and unknowable more than gore or other elements of shock, though these may still be present.” The thought of authors sharing ideas and being inspired by each other, especially Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft, led me to my research question. How is Stephen King's literature lovecraftian in nature? The purpose of this question is to show readers that, although they may read one author and understand their ideas and writing styles, that it is not uncommon to find a second author with very similar writing styles and ideas as the first author. Sharing ideas and writing styles between authors, within and outside of a

When you read a story,no matter if a short story or novel, you probably don't think that the stories you read are written similar or different from other stories by other authors. From the story to the writing style each piece of literature is its own independent piece. For example “The Lesson” By Toni Cade Bambara and “A Rose For Emily” By William Faulkner are two short stories written by two different authors.

The pair of short stories I will be analyzing and comparing is “Harvey’s Dream” by Stephen King, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. These two stories are similar in many ways, and they can be compared critically based on their diction, point of view, similarities in narration, characterization, tone, et cetera. Though the stories are from different authors and have different plots, by comparing their literary techniques, their similarities can be unearthed.