30 POINTS As you have learned, the stories that make up a nation's mythology share several characteristics: They are set in the past, often in remote or exciting places and times, they are filled with remarkable, strange, or exaggerated characters, they are feature incredible, heroic, impressive, magical mysterious events and their consequences, they convey a positive message about a nation or its people.
After reading washington irving's "rip van winkle," consider it as a story that helped create an american mythology. then answer the following question in the form of a comprehensive paragraph. your paragraph should consist of at least 8 sentences including a topic sentence, three pieces of textual evidence (quotations from “rip van winkle”), an analysis of textual evidence, and a concluding sentence. prompt: how does irving incorporate one of the above characteristics into "rip van winkle"? what is the impact of this characteristic on the story or on the reader’s experience of the story?

The story “Rip Van Winkle”, by Washington Irving, is a fundamental cog in the creation of American mythology. Being a historic fiction, with exaggerated characters, and a positive message about the American nation, Rip Van Winkle remains memorable to many readers and sets the guidelines of American legend and mythology.  

As the medium, an exceptional historic fiction has three roles in literature: presenting memorable moments, exploring newly developed themes, and leaving an undeniable (positive) impact on pop-culture. A prominent example of the medium acting efficiently is in quote, “As he approached the village, he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with everyone in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence of this gesture, induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when, to his astonishment, he found his beard had grown a foot long!” The moment of realization Rip had been extraordinary, a unique moment in pop-culture. The concept of exploring something off about a familiar place is rare, but intriguing. Rip Van Winkle, being one of the first stories to explore the idea, set the ultimate positive impact by showing a new, creative way to perceive self-realization or uncertain familiarity.  

In every story, there’s one strategy to keep their work memorable: that being the exaggeration and/or stereotype of certain characters throughout their journey. Rip Van Winkle demonstrates a solid example of the concept in the passage, “Certain it is, that he was a great favorite among all the good wives of the village, who, as usual with eh amiable sex, took his part in all family squabbles, and never failed, whenever they talked those manners over in their evening gossiping, to lay all the blame on Dame Van Winkle.” It’s not so much the stereotype Rip has, it’s the exaggeration on the respect he has in the village; showing that he’s a good person overall by making the reader think about the exaggeration’s true value.  

The last aspect/characteristic to consider that distinguishes legend and myth from story, within a particular country, is the positive message that is left for said nation. America, being a young nation, wasn’t clear as to what defined their citizens. However, Rip Van Winkle successfully set somewhat of a guideline as to what the American citizen stood for in the paragraph, “Rip Van Winkle, however, was none of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled disposition, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can get got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.” This positive message describing the character of a typical American citizen inspires patriotism in the young nation’s life.  

As it stands, Rip Van Winkle is one of the most successful early American mythologies. Using the medium of a historic fiction to intrigue the reader and engage his memory, including exaggerated characters to emphasize the true quality of their morality, and messaging the positive aspects in the United States to the reader, Rip Van Winkle remains memorable and sets expectations for other works on art within the genre.  

no,

explanation:

because they are likely to use their corrupted thought process to get what they want. not what is better for the another reason they shouldn't is since they abused their rights as a us citizen they should have certain rights stripped away from them as punishment, such as the right to vote. due to the lack of proper behavior exemplified   from their actions , it would be hard for people to trust them because of their criminal record.   either directly (in the case of a referendum or ballot initiative) or indirectly (by choosing lawmakers and law enforcers). in fact, we do have certain minimum, objective standards of responsibility and commitment to our laws that we require people to meet before they are given a role in the solemn enterprise of self-government. people who have committed serious crimes against their fellow citizens don’t meet those standards. and those crimes can include such “non-violent felonies” as, say, treason and espionage, or voter fraud and public corruption, white-collar crime and felonies merely “concerning drugs” — like trafficking in fentanyl-laced heroin and selling it to minors, for example. if you’re not willing to follow the law, then you should not have a role in making the law for everyone else.

no