Sleepy hollow question?

Question

what is the theme of sleeply hollow?

Answer 1

The real theme behind sleepy hollow is to becareful what you wish for because you just might get your wish...... And Mr.  Cran wanted to be a hero in the eyes of other and the woman of his dreams, and when his chance came to be a hero he ran away for both your head and heart have to be in fully into the fight, for his head was ready but his heart was not........ For a real hero has to face dangerous far beyond his ability to control in his or her current sitution.......................

Answer 2

How academic do you want me to be?

Simply put: secrets can't remain burried forever or there are things beyond explanation.

Academically it's focus is on the conflict between Brom Bones and Icabod Crane, Crane being the intellectual and outsider and Brom being the insider and uneducated.  

Also, icabod is a satirical puritian figure which must be shocked into the reality of the world around him and understand that there are things beyond the realm of books and science.

Answer 3

If you are pompous,  you'll lose your head.

Answer 4

Buried secrets will come back to haunt you.

Answer 5

I'd like to go there, visit the sights mentioned in the story!!!!

they may have a museum too!

Answer 6

My ancestors are from Sleepy Hollow  (NY).

Here's something to check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_...

Answer 7

a headless horsemen (once a german mercanry) has bee resurected by a witch who is using him to kill off certain people to benefit her own needs, and the brave doctor (played by johnny depp) has to get to the bottom of this gory mystery.

Answer 8

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.

The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head". Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related".

Answer 9

Thank you Alex. Someone who realises that the film is not the story.