rnatural world who was controlled by Katrina’s stepmother. The Headless Horseman was her tool to take revenge on the Van Tassel family. Not only has she taken revenge on the family, but also anyone who would be given control of the inheritance. Burton uses this story line to add in the theme in the theme of greed yet to take it away from the main character, Ichabod, in order to make him the hero of the story.Between the two stories, I found Washington Irving’s version to be more appealing. With his choice of the ending, Irving used suspense in building the imagination. When talking about the Horseman, he used dark descriptions, which helped create an eerie mood, while talking about Katrina and the town he used bright images to help build a mental picture of the scenery. Irving’s motive was to let you use your imagination. Although he described the scene for you, you use your imagination to fill in the missing pieces. When it came to ending the story, Irving leaves you in suspense. In actuality, the movie has a completely different plot line from the original story, although both stories provide a helpless main character, which is truly incapable of fending for him. Yet the main theme with Ichabod was that in both, he was a teacher. Although in the movie he was a detective, he was a scientist who was willing to teach people his methods of solving crimes. While the original story leaves you wondering what happens to Ichabod, the movie leaves you with the question on whether or not everything can be explained by science. Ichabod tries the entire movie to try and figure out who is the murderer by using all his scientific explanations, yet in the end, there truly was a ghost. Both stories leave you thinking about the possibility of ghosts and demons. When it comes to both stories, they both provide questions that leave us to ponder. While they have their similarities, the majority of ideas differ. The stor...
