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Story · United States · 1819

Rip Van Winkle

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Item: Rip Van Winkle
Rating: 29
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29Leave it.

He slept through a revolution, and the joke lands on his wife.

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The review

This is Washington Irving's story, not the 1903 film. Rip sleeps in the mountains and wakes after the Revolution. His wife is dead. The king on the inn sign has changed. He slept through the public event of his lifetime. A house can read that much to a child in one sitting.

The domestic tyrant is a joke the story enjoys. The joke is at the wife's expense. Say so, or the charm will pull you in. She is dead when he wakes, and the tale is glad to be done with the woman it laughed at. A country changed on that inn sign without him. I would not let our kitchen laugh the way the story does.

Journal

Keep Rip Van Winkle in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

41 instead of 29

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is still a story film, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is industry: Ichabod is a schoolmaster, and he also wants the farm.

The eight

2
Industry
He sleeps out the years; the work of a life does not get done.
3
Household
His wife is the domestic joke the story enjoys, and then she is dead.
2
Piety
No conscience wakes him; sleep is how he misses his own time.
1
Courage
He risks nothing he would miss; he sleeps through the Revolution.
5
Republic
The king on the inn sign changes while he sleeps through the public event.
3
Temperance
The tale enjoys his escape and never asks him to want less of it.
4
Truth
The changed inn sign is true; the joke on his wife is a cheap one.
3
Stewardship
He wakes to a dead wife and a country that went on without him.

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Story · Britain · 1847

Wuthering Heights

29Leave it.

Not a love to copy. It wrecks two generations and spends the children.

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Don't file this under romance and hand it to a teenager in love. A foundling and a daughter of the house want each other in a way that wrecks two generations. Emily Brontë sets it on the moors. The weather is not the problem. The love is not a model. It is a storm that spends the children.

I finished it angry that the passion is the part people remember. The children are who get spent. A teen can read the novel, not the 1939 film and not a later one, if you say beforehand that this is not a marriage to aim at. It wrecks two generations. Say that before the mood takes over.

Journal

Keep Wuthering Heights in the record.