Crane reprimands the students whom he believes will be able to handle the punishment. The narrator follows Ichabod Crane, the town's school teacher. The town is characterized as static in time and it contains no signs of modern life. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" takes place in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Five of the “sketches” included in the book come in the form of short stories, one of which is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Crayon claims that he finds the legend written down among Diedrich Knickerbocker’s papers. The book includes essays, or “sketches,” of the narrator’s-Geoffrey Crayon’s-observations while he is traveling across the Atlantic and when he lands in Liverpool. Most of "The Sketch-Book" is part of a genre known as travel literature. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is short story written by Washington Irving in "The Sketch-Book," which was published in June of 1819.
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