Question

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use the text to support your answers. When completed submit your assignment.(Sleepy Hollow)

1.First define coquette. Then explain from the text why you think Katrina's parents - her raising - might have contributed to her being a coquette in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

2.Explain how Ichabod’s rival uses the schoolteacher’s character flaw to force him out of Sleepy Hollow in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

3.Explain the following passage and explain what it tells us about Ichabod’s character;
“As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow- lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.”

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

1. Coquette is the term given to a very flirtatious and charming person. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Katrina is a coquette, because she likes to flirt and charm men with all her femininity. The upbringing she received helped her to be that way, because her parents taught her to be attractive and draw the attention of many admirers.

2. Ichabod's rival could use the teacher's reputation to make him badly liked in society, causing people not to admire him and not allow him to be welcomed in the territory, in addition to treating him badly to the point that he would prefer to leave town.

3. the passage shows how Ichabod is an ambitious and conceited man, who, besides wanting to have a beautiful woman by his side, thinks about making a lot of money with everything she has, leaving him successful, rich and envied.