Rip Van Winkle is a very intriguing character because he is very hard working in the village for other people but doesn’t care about his work that needs to be done first. Due to his laziness in character, he doesn’t look after his family neither caring nor loving his own children. However he is a very lucky man even though he is irresponsible and stubborn. By falling into a twenty year sleep he manages to escape war and survive his wife. It is very fascinating how things turn out for him. Firstly his eagerness in helping other people in the village when they need help is a very fascinating thing to do especially when you didn’t even do your own work. He was prepared to attend and help anybody’s business but his own. Secondly this shows how friendly he is towards other people and how irresponsible he is towards himself and his family.
Due to his friendship and niceness towards other people in his village everyone is friendly towards him and even the dogs don’t even bark at him. All the children in the village liked him for, as he taught them games, amused them with stories and even women employed him to do work that their husband won’t do for them. Rip Van Winkle never refused to help a neighbor even with the most difficult task such as building a stone fence. Rip van Winkle is very irresponsible to his family and to his work. The effect of his irresponsibility is that his children get treated poorly, wearing old tattered and ripped clothing and receiving no care or love from him. Another example that he is very irresponsible is he doesn’t take care of his own farm and it is also in the worst condition of all the farms in the neighborhood.
The Essay on African People in the Global Village
Certain things happen in one’s life, whether one likes them or not. You can not stand apart from it; you need to experience the process of going through it. Let me give the example of a car. It has two types of movements-forward movement and lateral movement. The energy (petrol, gas etc. ) relates to forward movement, without which the car can not start. You have no control over it. As for the ...
His fences are continually falling to pieces, his cows kept on running away from the farm, the weeds were sure to grow faster in his fields than anywhere else and unluckily it always rained every time he had some outdoor work to do. He even tries to escape responsibility by avoiding his wife so he doesn’t get forced into doing any work for his farm or care for his children. Lastly Rip Van Winkle is a person who escapes from his wife and avoids his responsibilities. When his wife tells him to do work or take care of his children he goes of hunting or fishing with no catch in order to waste time and not get in trouble.
He also tries to escape his wife’s loud voice and working on the farm. By falling into a twenty year long sleep in the mountains he managed to escape war and his life. Not only did he not have to die as his fellow villagers did in the war, but his wife is gone when he returns to his village In conclusion Rip Van Winkle is a very intriguing character because of the way with life, the way he works for others, and the way how he treats his own family and children. Rip Van Winkle may not be a role model in some ways but as a happy go lucky man he is the envy for many people.
