MOSAIC: voices from Polson High School

Welcome to Mosaic.
Be honest. Be kind. Be temperate.

Rip Van Winkle*~Erin King

The story of Rip Van Winkle recounts a timeless tail of laziness and its following consequences. Rip is a man, living in a dutch community setting, who refuses to do chores, household cleaning, etc. He negletcs his son, wife and house, and spends his time wandering around his village doing chores and minor favors for other families. the book never really explains why this is, but you sort of come to the conclusion that he’s a little mental.  Any who...is wife is a nag, and is always yelling at him for not doing this, or that, ( she sounds like a brat) and finally Rip leaves to go on a so called “hunting trip.”
While wandering around the woods he runs into a little man, carrying a keg full of some alcoholic beverage, and offers to help him carry it down the mountain.  In return he receives a free drink ( and seriously, who accepts stuff from weird old men?) which makes him sleep for pretty much a hundred years. He loses like half his life, which wasn’t much to begin with, and returns to a town that’s almost completely forgotten him.

I guess this story is sort of romantic, because they are extremely unrealistic and require you to imagine extremely far fetched things. All in all, the story was funner when I was a kid =)