The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a gothic story that I have known since I was young. Although after watching the movie when I was young, the book was definitely a let down. I was expecting more involvement with the "Headless Horseman" throughout the novel but was let down to find out his involvement was limited to the last couple of pages. Also, in the end of the novel the protagonist dissappears and Brom Bones gets the woman Ichabod Crane (the protagonist) was chasing. This was dissappointing because I expected the protagonist to survive the novel and get the girl he was chasing. This might be because that is how the movie ended so I just expected that but I feel like almost all successful stories have a "happy ending."
Young Goodman Brown was a very stange short story but it definitely helped trigger my imagination. I thought the "trippy" nature of the novel was very intriguing and I enjoyed reading it as a whole. At the end of the novel I was sure if he had fallen asleep and dreamed the whole thing or if it all really happened. I enjoyed the short novels a lot better than the long drawn out ones, it was more straight and to the point than some of the previous novels we have read.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" has been a story that is definitely well known to our generation, because of the movie. I, too, was disappointed with the way the book and the movie were almost polar opposites. However, this is not a surprise considering I feel this is a normal characteristic in differences from book to movie. I found the movie to be more enticing, which is very uncommon. "Young Goodman Brown" definitely had a trippy, drug induced feel to it. The whole book did seem to lead to the thought of a dream with all of the psychedelic writings.
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