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The Sketchbook The Sketchbook Washington Irving wrote 32 short stories to for The Sketchbook. The Sketchbook is mainly concerned in trying to make America similar to England. Irving writes The Sketchbook in such a unique way that the themes in it have a broad range. Irving’s unique writing style throughout The Sketchbook shows is symbolism, stereotypical characters, and story with a story type o writing. Through symbolism Irving conveys his patriotism. Throughout The Sketchbook Irving has many symbols that relate to patriotism. One major symbol used by Irving is the “eagle”. It is brought up in stories such as “Christmas Day” and “Spectra Bride”. It represents the reality of America’s new freedom. By Irving’s enphasis on the eagle, it clearly showed his true hope for America to survive its tough times. Another important symbol is the “forest”. The “forest” symbolizes the vast space in America. Irving also symbolizes the Indians ignorance through “sleep”. He mentions “sleep” in stories like “The Angler”, “John Bull”, and others emphasizing strongly that he believes the Indians irving, sketchbook, story, stories, indians, writing, women, unique, stereotypical, america, within, winkle, van, throughout, symbolism, style, make, indian, writings, writes, way, washington, type, trying, symbolizes, symbol, stereotypes, shows, short, reader, people, patriotism, one