My Antonia By Willa Cather
My Antonia
By Willa Cather
Kajal Desai
2B APUSH
March 3, 2016
My Antonia is a fictional story written by Willa Cather. The story starts off with Cather herself as the narrator, which then switches to another narrator to a man by the name of Jim Burden, who is a lawyer of the transcontinental railroads. The reason there is a switch up in the narrators is due to the fact that Cather wanted to write a memoir about a girl named Antonia, but she is not as familiar with Antonia as much as Jim Burden was who happened to have known Antonia since she was the age fourteen. Which leads to Burden to writing a memoir about the girl naming it My Antonia.
My Antonia, fictional memoir about a girl named Antonia was published around 1918. It one of …show more content…
The book breaks away from stereotypical gender issues saying women are stronger and men are more towards the warm hearted weak souls. The story is about an everyday lifestyle of someone in the American West. Her main target is in Nebraska and European immigrants, which are the ones Willa CAther grew up with. This novel illustrates the American West inside the daily lives of early white settlers. Burden starts off his portion of the story telling the reader from the time he became an orphan. At the age of ten, Jimmy had to move Nebraska from Virginia to live on the farm with his grandparents. On his journey to Nebraska there is a man by the name of Jak Marpole. Jimmy overhears that there is a family, the Shimerdas moving from Bohemia (modern day Czech Republic). They happen to be neighbors of his grandparents. Jimmy is asked to assist the daughter of Mr. Shimerda, Antonia with English. The tutoring brings both children to become close friends. Jimmy compares Antonia to the beautiful nature of Nebraska. The Shimerdas are a struggling family who don’t have much money being immigrants, which leads to Mr. Shimerda committing suicide. As duties imply, Antonia has to support her family by
By Willa Cather
Kajal Desai
2B APUSH
March 3, 2016
My Antonia is a fictional story written by Willa Cather. The story starts off with Cather herself as the narrator, which then switches to another narrator to a man by the name of Jim Burden, who is a lawyer of the transcontinental railroads. The reason there is a switch up in the narrators is due to the fact that Cather wanted to write a memoir about a girl named Antonia, but she is not as familiar with Antonia as much as Jim Burden was who happened to have known Antonia since she was the age fourteen. Which leads to Burden to writing a memoir about the girl naming it My Antonia.
My Antonia, fictional memoir about a girl named Antonia was published around 1918. It one of …show more content…
The book breaks away from stereotypical gender issues saying women are stronger and men are more towards the warm hearted weak souls. The story is about an everyday lifestyle of someone in the American West. Her main target is in Nebraska and European immigrants, which are the ones Willa CAther grew up with. This novel illustrates the American West inside the daily lives of early white settlers. Burden starts off his portion of the story telling the reader from the time he became an orphan. At the age of ten, Jimmy had to move Nebraska from Virginia to live on the farm with his grandparents. On his journey to Nebraska there is a man by the name of Jak Marpole. Jimmy overhears that there is a family, the Shimerdas moving from Bohemia (modern day Czech Republic). They happen to be neighbors of his grandparents. Jimmy is asked to assist the daughter of Mr. Shimerda, Antonia with English. The tutoring brings both children to become close friends. Jimmy compares Antonia to the beautiful nature of Nebraska. The Shimerdas are a struggling family who don’t have much money being immigrants, which leads to Mr. Shimerda committing suicide. As duties imply, Antonia has to support her family by