I would like to know what the similarities and differences are between the book and the movie.

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social"" and the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow,directed by Tim
Burton, have little in common.

The similarities are
found primarily in the setting of Sleepy Hollow, a hamlet north of New York City. It is largely
populated by Dutch Americans, and it is a mostly agrarian community. Many of the characters'
names from the short story are used in the film, but the characterizations are different. Both
the story and the film center on a character named Ichabod Crane who comes to Sleepy Hollow as
an outsider to this Dutch American enclave, and both feature a character called the Headless
Horseman, purportedly a supernatural manifestation of a Hessian soldier decapitated in the
Revolutionary War.

The differences between the film and movie are many. In
the story, Ichabod Crane is a Connecticut schoolteacher who comes to Sleepy Hollow, sees the
bounty of its beautiful farms, and works to ingratiate himself with the prosperous Van
Tassels...