Legend Of Sleepy Hollow:

The story The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow captures the imagination of todays reader by giving a tale of mystery and also has a scary element to it. In todays world people love thrill and they also love to solve the mystery behind stories, the guessing is intriguing. They scary aspect to the story the whole haunted forest with the headless horseman. The major mystery to the story to the story is figuring out who the headless horseman is and why he is doing what he is doing. The imaginations of todays youth could say that he is a ghost haunting a forest or he is a man who impeccably lived through a beheading. The guessing leads the reader in and the twists and turns make it impossible to put the story down.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot:

This song has a verse that states, "There was a band of angels comin' for to carry me home" this verse speaks to me as to say that he is almost to death and can see the angels from heaven coming to bring him to God. This song reflects religious beliefs because it is a song about angels and it keeps the slaves, or anybody for that matter, singing this song that hard times happen and that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel no matter how bad life gets there will always be a better outcome if you truly believe. The time period this song was written was during a extremely religious time period and this song shows it because it is about heaven and the God above. This was also written during a time of slavery for our nation and this song also shows that because it was song by slaves to get through their hard times. It can be reflected to our time period because even now people have rough lives and need to look to God for help and hope to get through it.