Report of Rip Van Winkle

These days I’ve read a passage named Rip Van Winkle . It’s a short story written by Washington Irving published in 1819.

The story is about Rip Van Winkle, who lived under his wife’s controlling, an obedient henpecked husband. He is always criticized by his wife for lazy in housework and not caring about the family at home. In fact ,he does .He was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own；but as to doing family duty ,and keeping his own farm in order ,he found it impossible .He has a good temper to his neighborhood , which gained him such universal popularity .

One day ,Rip take to the outside of the house to avoid his wife’s blames with his dog .On his way back home ,Rip happens to meet a stranger and follows him .There ,he drink some miracle wine and falls asleep .Morning ,he wakes up and finds something usual happen to him .His clothes worn out ,his dog is gone ,his gun missing .At first ,he thought it is just a joke that the stranger played on him .He hurriedly goes home ,for he is afraid of his wife .As soon as he goes back to the village does he know what has happens .He has already slept for 20 years！During his sleeping-days ,his wife is dead and his friends have died in the war or gone other somewhere else .He immediately gets into trouble when he said he himself was a loyal subject of George Ⅲ ,not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place and he is not supposed to be loyal subject of any hanoverial any longer . Fortunately , the mistakes disappear and he lives a more happy life again without his hash wife .

Through the action and words from Rip ,I learn that it is a little bit sad when the author faces the past time .He is sad to see the changes between peoples and

life .

第二篇：读后感

Report of Rip Van Winkle

These days I have read a temperature Kerr. Is by the famous writer Washington Erwin (Washington Irving) (1789-1895) writing, he is an American romantic writer, is a pure literature writer, his writing attitude is "writing for pleasure and to produce

pleasure".Erwin's masterpiece "sketch" (Sketch Book), this is the first of the great books for young people, is a Native American writer first successful novel. Due to Erwin's great contribution to American literature, he won the "father of American Literature" the glorious title. This short story, "Rip Van Kerr" is taken from the temperature "sketch", this article is to the United States of America in colonial Holland Hudson River in a mountain village background depicts the poor farmers of Rip Van temperature Kerr strange encounters.

This is the story of the about a man named Rip Van Winkle, who lived in a little

Dutch town in the Hudson Valley. Everyone in the town was very fond of him because he would help anyone who needed help and he would play with the children. The thing he couldn't do was tend to his farm because it seemed that everything he did failed, so he would go out and fish or go to the town inn and listen to the gossip. His wife Dame Van Winkle would get angry at him for being lazy and not tending to the farm. One day he decided that he had one option to get away from his wife and the farm, which was to take his gun and dog and go into the woods and hunt squirrels. He spent all day looking for squirrels, but couldn't find any. So he lied on the grass and after awhile he noticed it was getting dark, so he started back. As he did this, he heard someone calling his name and then he saw a ghost appear carrying a keg of liquor on his back. So they both went together down the woods until they came to this opening where they saw these weird dressed people playing 9 pin. Rip and the ghost walked up towered them and the ghost poured liquor into the flasks for the people to drink and Rip started to drink too until he passed out on the ground. The next mourning he woke up and didn't know what to tell his wife. He reached for his gun, but all he saw was a rusted out gun instead of the well oiled, shiny gun. Then he looked for his dog and he couldn't find his dog.

So he went back in town and everyone stared at him like they didn't know him. He looked at himself to see what everyone was staring at and he saw that he had a beard a foot long. He looked around the village and nothing was familiar, even his house which looked like a run-down shack. He went to the tavern to see if he recognized anyone, which he didn't. Then he started calling the his friends names to see if anyone has heard of them and they all said that they were have moved on or dead. Then he asked if they have heard of the name Rip Van Winkle and they all pointed to his son, which looked just like him.This made Rip think that he had woke up someone else because his son looked just like him.

Then a woman with a child in her arms came to see the man. Rip had overheard the name of the child was Rip and he asked her who was her father and she said her father was Rip Van Winkle, who left when she was a child twenty years ago. Then Rip told

her that he was her Events, no matter how small can change a society, a culture, and an outlook in the blink of an eye. Whether it is in a war, a speech, a gesture, or even a novel. Washington Irving made an incredible impact from his short story "Rip Van Winkle",

drawing the events surrounding him to form a simple story with deep meaning. To bring to a pinpoint, the story shaped the American culture as the American culture shaped the story.

From this folklore, others have grown from it. Some believe that Rip in fact did not fall asleep, but took adventurous journeys in foreign lands with strange people. Art and child-like fantasies have been the median to which the stories have been communicated. Drawings consist of fairy-like areas and magical settings have attracted children and adults alike.

"Rip Van Winkle" has affected elements across the board. It shows up

everywhere. Since 1819, the story, the name, and what it stands for has touched all parts of the arts, literature, education, and culture. The number of editions that the story has accumulated is higher than most and comes in all forms of literature from cheap

paperbacks to elaborated illustrations that have become classics. Mentioned in other literature, in politics, and in a variety of languages, it is used to define what our country became after the revolutionary war and how the British perceive the Americans. The fact that Rip fell asleep due to the effects of a drink. England felt that the Americans were lazy alcoholics that would fall apart if not for the British authorities controlling them.

The story of Rip Van Winkle has almost come to the point where it has become commercialized. If one travels into the Catskills, they will come across an array of tourist attractions ranging from hotels, to Lakes, to gas stations. There is a tour company that travels from New York to the Catskills. There one will find a famous garden with the same name.

In conclusion, the story Rip Van Winkle has affected and in turn, been affected by American society. How can we apply this to modern day society? Are we still able to compare that way that are government has evolved? Not only was it new beginning for a new style of writing it was a new start for a country. Washington could in no way have known how much his story would affect our culture.