American Literature / Unit 6 AML 0507 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Rip Van Winkle"
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The idea
Rip, an amiable idler with a scolding wife, wanders into the Catskills, drinks with silent Dutchmen, and sleeps twenty years. He returns to find his wife dead, his village altered, and Washington's portrait where King George had hung.
In practice
Twenty years asleep, and a new flag.
Where people slip
The story reaches us through a fictional historian.
Your place on the trail
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