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Jim Burden In My Antonia
In My Antonia by Willa Cather, Jim Burden is visiting his childhood friend Antonia—who he remembers as an especially tenacious and hardworking individual—in Black Hawk, Nebraska. After 20 years of no correspondence, they sit together and chat in a peaceful orchard, and Jim finds that Antonia is pleasantly happy and comfortable with her life. As they reminisce fondly about certain details of their childhoods, Jim notices a group ducks pecking at fallen fruit and admires their colorful feathers, at which Antonia remarks on how they remind her of the soldiers back in Bohemia, her home
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