"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"

1.) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow": The story captures the imagination of the reader by using plenty of descriptive words and has them guessing what happened to Ichabod Crane. The story also captures the reader's imagination by setting the story in a place where anything could basically happen from the ordinary to the supernatural. Plus it shows the reader how Halloween was celebrated back then and how it differes from today's way of celebrating the spooky holiday. What could of happened to Ichabod toward the end, when he looked back to see if the Headless Horseman vanished, since he's extremely tall he could of hit his head on a low hanging board so hard to where he fell down and the creek had carried him away before anyone could have found his body the next day or he was extremely panicked about all of what was going on and it just happened to kill him.

2.) "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot": The song talks about escaping the physical conditions of slavery when the song says "If you get there before I do, coming for to carry me home, tell all my friends I'm coming too, coming for to carry me home." which is talking about arriving to a different place and that the friend should go find all the other friends and tell them that one more slave is about to come soon. The song is about religious faith and hope by talking about "The brightest day that I ever saw, coming for to carry me home, When Jesus washed my sins away, coming for to carry me home"; "... But still my soul feels heavenly bound, coming for to carry me home" The song is saying about the day that the songwriter was saved and that his soul feels heaven bound instead of the earthly freedom from slavery. He wants to go home, meaning back into Heaven. The song is reflective of it's time period because it was composed while Willis was in slavery and he would perform songs he made while working in the evening time for the children.Most songs back then were spiritual in nature but were also meaning freedom from slavery. The song relates to today because many people are waiting for heavenly freedom instead of earthly freedom. Earthly freedom means something, but it's only temporary while heavenly freedom lasts forever.