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F‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍or each question, you should respond in eight to ten sentences (sixteen to twenty sentences total). Be sure to add quotations as support and explain the significance of the quote: 1. Washington Irving’s narrator describes in great detail the town’s “junto” of sages, led by the taciturn Nicholas Vedder and assisted by the learned schoolmaster, Derrick Van Bummel: “[T]hey used to sit in the shade, of a long lazy summer’s day, talk listlessly over village gossip, or tell endless sleepy stories about nothing”. Why does Rip spend time listening to the junto? Describe Rip’s character in‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍ the context of his neighbors’ habits and hobbies. 2. The narrator describes the Dutch ninepin bowlers dressed in antique clothes that Rip meets in the Kaatskills as follows: “[T]hough these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed”. What effect does the seriousness of this group have on Rip, on what happens to him, and on the rest of the story? Read The Norton Anthology of American Literature Pre-1865, Ninth Edition Washington Irving 1753-178‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍4

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