Sleepy Swinging, Sweet Chariot Talking Hollow

Sleepy Hollow appeals to all kind of readers as it includes comedy, romance, horror, a hero, competition, and the little kid touch that Disney adds to their movies to make one rockin' book/movie. Some examples of these appeals in the book would be when it says, “I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.” Appealing to the romantic touches in the book. This next example appeals to comedy, and is one of my favorite quotes in the whole book, “All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.” 

Swing Lowwww, Sweet Charriiioooottttt

Swing Low Sweet Chariot talks about a slave wanting to die and asking God to come and take them up to heaven, you can tell this when the song says "a band of angels coming after me," talking about how the angels are coming to retrieve her and take her to heaven.

This song is about religious hope and faith because it talks about Gods 'chariot' coming and taking her away to her home and how from his chariot "I looked over the Jordan" which lets you know that they were extremely high in the air and were going to heaven considering no one just goes on a joy ride with God to look down over the earth and then go back to being a slave. 

This song relates to its period because there were hundreds of religious slave back the and almost all of them wished to die because of the emotional and physical intensity of being a slave and how harsh the conditions were. It would not be like if we had a maid today and they just cleaned up the house. It was definitely worse. "Tell all my friends im coming to" shows you that almost everyone she knew wanted God to take them up to heaven as i stated earlier. 

I think this song relates to today because even though we don't have slaves, there are still a lot of people who ask God to take them back up to heaven because they can't live in society's conditions. Some conditions that are similar from that time period to today's time period would be working in factory's, working as a house maid, and also many women who are kidnapped are forced to work for their kidnappers and get abused just like the slaves back then did.