Sleepy Hollow

Alton Jowers Audience: Middle class people of any race, gender, or location, between the ages of 18 and 60 with atleast a 12th grade reading level who has read the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Purpose: To analyze “Sleepy Hollow”, so my readers will be convinced to believe that Tim Burton turns Sleepy Hollow into a gothic setting to set the mood of the story. Thesis: Tim Burton uses a gothic setting to depict the dark unchanging mood …

…think that Tim Burton’s remake of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a very good representation of the original story by Washington Irving. If Irving was still alive and could have seen this movie, I think he would agree. Furthermore, the way Tim Burton uses his gothic background in this movie, gives it the extra realism needed to put the audience in the middle of the town starring face to face with the Headless