{"id":7161,"date":"2019-10-29T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:49:54","slug":"the-adventure-of-the-german-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/10\/29\/the-adventure-of-the-german-student\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventure of the German Student"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you all may know by now, I love October. It\u2019s an amazing month to me because the temperature goes down, the leaves change from green to golds and reds, and Halloween is right around the corner. Halloween is, by far, my favorite holiday. Christmas and Thanksgiving are awesome in their own ways, but they aren\u2019t on the same level as Halloween. You can dress up as anything you\u2019d like, so if there\u2019s a dream you never got to fulfill, for just one night out of the year, you can live out that fantasy. Kids get to run around and go to strangers\u2019 homes to get free candy, and adults, ranging from 20 to 40, are most likely at a friend\u2019s house or a club drinking the night away. October and Halloween are a time for horror and things that go bump in the night, which brings me to the topic of this post: \u201cThe Adventure of the German Student\u201d by Washington Irving. I thought it would be more appropriate to review a ghost\/scary story for this spook-takular part of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Adventure of the German Student\u201d is about a young man named Gottfried Wolfgang who is likely suffering from depression, and his friends send him to Paris during the French Revolution. Not really the greatest time or place for a person who has a \u201cmelancholy temperament\u201d to be, but kudos to his friends for trying to help. To be quite honest, the story really isn\u2019t scary. In fact, it doesn\u2019t even border on creepy – the baby version of scary. It\u2019s more like a funny ghost story. I don\u2019t know what was Irving\u2019s purpose in creating the story, but I still enjoyed it in some way. While I didn\u2019t like how Wolfgang\u2019s story ended, I like the actual end of the work. It kind of left me with the questions: Who the man was talking to? and Who was the narrator of the story?<\/span><\/p>\n

I think Irving\u2019s \u201cThe Adventure of the German Student\u201d is a perfect story to tell to kids because it\u2019s not meant to be scary in my opinion. It\u2019s given a dark history and backdrop, but when you actually get into the story, the atmosphere lightens up. Wolfgang has become so melancholic that he\u2019s become fascinated by this strange beauty that haunts his dreams, and suddenly he meets her. Absolutely nothing about would scare a child unless they were still in that stage where they think girls or guys are icky. But besides that, it\u2019s perfect to read to a group of kids around a little fire while they roast marshmallows and make smores. As an official rating, I give the story five jack o\u2019lanterns out of five jack o\u2019lanterns for children, and one rotten jack o\u2019lantern out of five jack o\u2019lanterns for anyone else who decides to read it. I do encourage you to read it though to find out what happens to Gottfried and his mysterious beauty!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you all may know by now, I love October. It\u2019s an amazing month to me because the temperature goes down, the leaves change from green to golds and reds, and Halloween is right around the corner. Halloween is, by far, my favorite holiday. Christmas and Thanksgiving are awesome in their own ways, but they … Continue reading “The Adventure of the German Student”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7193,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}