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Rip Van Winkle

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Rip Van Winkle	comment	"Rip Van Winkle" is an 1819 short story by the American author Washington Irving.The story is set in upstate New York (namely, the Catskill Mountains) shortly before The American Revolution. Rip Van Winkle is a genial, well-liked colonist of Dutch extraction, whose only problem is a nagging shrew of a wife. To escape said nagging wife, Rip wanders off for a walk in the woods. There he meets a strange man in strange-looking antique Dutch clothes who offers him some homemade moonshine. He has a few drinks with the strange man and his even stranger, silent companions, and eventually falls asleep. He wakes up to find that he's grown a foot-long beard, his musket has rotted away, and his dog has disappeared. Walking back into town, Rip discovers a number of odd changes...Originally published in the collection The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., along with several other of Irving's short stories (including the equally famous "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"), "Rip Van Winkle" has been adapted many times for stage and screen, dating back to a 19th century play and one of the oldest narrative films ever made, an 1896 film of that play.Trope Namer for Rip Van Winkle.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Rip Van Winkle / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: When he goes into those fateful woods, Rip remarks that Dame Van Winkle would put his poor dog out to starve, but that won't happen as long as he's around. Then he falls into that 20-year slumber....
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Rip Van Winkle / int_170cf4b6	type	Heroes Love Dogs
Rip Van Winkle / int_170cf4b6	comment	Heroes Love Dogs: Before his enchanted sleep, Rip was never seen without his Canine Companion, Wolf.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Rip Van Winkle / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Rip Jr. looks and dresses exactly like his father, and acts just as lazy as him.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
Rip Van Winkle / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: 20 years is a long nap.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Rip Van Winkle / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: His bitter, shrewish old wife has died, but Rip is shaken to know that a number of his old neighbors have joined to fight in The American Revolution, with one of them killed in action, another joining the Army and another serving in Congress, and that the village switched allegiances from Britain's King George III to George Washington and the U.S.A. Still, Rip is able to live comfortably with his daughter and becomes a respected elder among the younger generation.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_47bf7e16	type	Local Hangout
Rip Van Winkle / int_47bf7e16	comment	Local Hangout: Sometimes when Rip wants to get away from his wife he strolls down to the local inn and hangs out with his buddies. He is startled when he comes back to the inn to find that the picture of King George III has been replaced by a picture of one George Washington.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
Rip Van Winkle / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: Rip misses the American Revolution during his nap, and is almost hanged when he introduces himself as a loyal British subject.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Rip Van Winkle / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: A lot of detail is made to how Rip allows his farm to go to ruin and his children to run wild because "he would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound." In fact, when he wakes from his magical sleep he's thrilled to find that his daughter has grown up and married a hard-working farmer; soon afterwards, old Rip spends his spare time at the local inn, makes friends among the younger rising generation, and narrates his adventures to the townspeople. Nevertheless, he is still quite helpful to other neighbors, despite his farm being described as "the most pestilent piece of ground in the whole country", with more weeds than crops growing and the fences falling apart.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_53833817	type	Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle / int_53833817	comment	Rip Van Winkle: Trope Namer. A drunk Rip dozes off in the woods and awakens to find out that 20 years have passed. Although this story is the trope namer, the trope is Older Than Feudalism, dating back at least as far as ancient Rome.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Rip Van Winkle / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: 20 years, long enough to grow a foot-long beard.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Rip Van Winkle / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Turns out that the strange spirit in old Dutch clothes who met Hudson, and all the other strange, silent men playing ninepins up in the mountains, are the spirits of "Hendrick Hudson" (Henry Hudson) and his crew. Henry Hudson was an explorer and one of the first Europeans to see the river and the bay named after him, but his crew mutinied and abandoned Hudson and the sailors loyal to him in Hudson Bay in 1611. Hudson and his party were never seen again. According to the story, once every twenty years the ghosts of Hudson and his men get to have a game of ninepins.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
Rip Van Winkle / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: Comes with an introduction in which the author claims to have found the story among the papers of one "Diedrich Knickerbocker", who supposedly did historical research of the Dutch people living in the Catskills.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Rip Van Winkle / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Dame Van Winkle may be a temperamental shrew, but she makes a point that Rip shouldn't expect to "starve by a penny [rather] than work for a pound" when he has a wife and kids who depend on him, and that the town encourages him to neglect his own family when they encourage him to hang out with them rather than come home to her.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Rip Van Winkle / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: The Trope Namer. Rip is actually described as "an obedient hen-pecked husband." The story suggests that having a nagging shrew for a wife is what makes him so meek and gentle and so popular with everyone else. The narrator does point out that Rip's wife has cause for being bitchy, namely, that Rip is too lazy to work on his own place, (yet he has no problems helping out the neighbors) and that his little farm is going to ruin because he is too lazy/incompetent to do anything with it. Rip takes his fateful walk into the woods in order to get away from his nagging wife.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_83f18d93	type	DontGoIntoTheWoods
Rip Van Winkle / int_83f18d93	comment	Don't Go Into the Woods: Rip's walk into the woods leads him to some supernatural beings who wind up getting him into a 20-year nap.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Rip Van Winkle / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Even before his 20-year-long nap, Rip never helped his wife look after their kids.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Rip Van Winkle / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: The 1941 Popeye cartoon Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle is a loose adaptation of the story in which Popeye tries to help out Rip, who is a sleepwalker in addition to being impossible to awaken. Will Vinton made a stop-motion adaptation in 1978. The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo did an adaptation of this story in 1965.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Rip Van Winkle / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: While Rip is very helpful around town and gladly aids people with their daily work, he has an almost pathological aversion to doing work on his own farm or doing profitable labor to provide for his own family. He also befriends neighborhood children, but doesn't really look after his own kids so they always look like ragged, wild street urchins.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Rip Van Winkle / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Rip's nagging wife is referred to only as "Dame Van Winkle."
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Rip Van Winkle / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Rip Van Winkle / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: When Rip comes back after his nap he is pleased to finds out that his wife burst a blood vessel and died while screaming at a traveling salesman. He whiles away his senior years living happily with his daughter and her husband.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Rip Van Winkle / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Rip is a friend to all the children of the village. He makes toys for the kids, plays games and shoots marbles with them, and runs around town with village children riding piggyback.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
Rip Van Winkle / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills
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Rip Van Winkle / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Rip Van Winkle / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted when Rip asks "Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?" A villager replies "Oh yes to be sure, that's Rip Van Winkle over there leaning against the tree," and it turns out to be his son, Rip Van Winkle Jr., who looks just like his father did 20 years ago.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Rip Van Winkle / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Rip left his children to fend for themselves, yet he's welcomed into his daughter's home and spends the rest of his life as happily lazy as ever.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_f3da74ff	type	Creepy Crows
Rip Van Winkle / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: The first time Rip hears the cry "Rip van Winkle!" all he sees is a solitary crow flying over the mountain.
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Rip Van Winkle / int_f717d46e	type	Stock Foreign Name
Rip Van Winkle / int_f717d46e	comment	Stock Foreign Name: Being a town of Dutch settlers, most of the names are understandably Dutch. Apart from of course the Van Winkles, 'van' is also used for Van Bummel, Van Schaick and Vanderdonk. And then there's "Brom Dutcher".
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Rip Van Winkle / int_fc47c7f9	type	The Future Is Shocking
Rip Van Winkle / int_fc47c7f9	comment	The Future Is Shocking: Rip wanders back into town to find everything changed. Many of the buildings are different, he doesn't recognize anyone, his own home is an abandoned ruin, and most shockingly, his Local Hangout inn has been replaced by a large hotel that flies an odd stars-and-stripes flag out front.
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