Annotated Bibliography Scholes‚ Robert. “Hope in Memory in My Ántonia.” Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: My Ántonia‚ Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing‚ 1987. 31-35. (#18 a selection from an anthropology) In this article by Robert Scholes‚ it talks about the hope and memory in My Antonia. He says the characters find themselves by looking back at the past. He said “we are reminded of this past constantly: by the Bohemian customs and culinary practices of the Shimerdas;
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The novel The Zoo Keepers Wife‚ By Diane Ackerman ties together: stories‚ memories‚ and interviews centered on Antonia and Jan Zabinski and the Warsaw Jews that they saved during the Holocaust. One of the main characters Antonia played a tremendous role and definitely stood out in this novel. She took Warsaw’s Jews’ in‚ and provided them with a stable shelter to stay in during this war. I believe that it takes a brave person to house Jew’s especially during this time. Her mission was to preserve
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intrigues me. She’s gentle even though she’s lived on the farm her entire life and she manages to make the littlest things exciting with her charisma. In ways‚ her adventurousness and excitement make her similar to Tony. However‚ they differ in that Ántonia possesses a quiet beauty and inner strength that contrasts with Lena’s liveliness. It’s strange-- I dream the same dream “a great many times‚ and it [is] always the same. I [am] in a harvest-field full of shocks‚ and I [am] lying against one of them
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In her great works‚ O Pioneers! and My Ántonia‚ Willa Cather tells the story of the immigrant pioneer in America. “Willa Cather was born in 1873 in Virginia. When she was a child‚ her family moved to Nebraska . . . novels as My Ántonia‚ O Pioneers! . . . are derived from immigrant experiences on the nineteenth-century Nebraska prairie.” (Hooper‚ 2009) According to Hooper’s essay‚ Cather’s upbringing as an outsider on the prairie inspired her to write about immigrants. She herself felt like an
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many of the views of immigration already mentioned in My Ántonia. The secondary source‚ “Case Studies: Immigration Control” by BBC supports many of the claims that Willa Cather emphasizes in her book which makes it a strong secondary source. Immigration is not stated nor seen as a bad thing in My Ántonia as it clearly tries to let the world know of the harsh conflicts that immigrants are often faced with. The secondary source and My Ántonia both support the claim that immigration is not detrimental
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The book The Zookeepers Wife‚ written by Diane Ackerman‚ tells the true war story of Jan and Antonia Zabinski. The Zookeepers Wife tells the journey of the Zabinski’s throughout the duration of World War II. During this time‚ Jan and Antonia are hiding war refugees in their zoo while also fighting for their own lives in the hopes of not getting caught. However‚ before the Germans invaded Poland and destroyed a large majority of their town the Zabinskis were successfully running their zoo in peace
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One girl whose grades slipped when she was left to care for her two younger brothers. One girl with purple hair and black lipstick who hides her love for playing the piano from her friends. These two unlikely best friends‚ Antonia Dillion and Jazz Luther‚ bond through their dysfunctional‚ parental issues. Jazz Luther is a rebellious‚ young teenage girl with black lipstick and purple hair. She comes from a rich family‚ plays piano‚ and has frequent disputes with her mother. In the book‚ Define
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cave with no utensils and furniture‚ as a simple bed they can use. Antonia and her father show grandma and Jimmy where they sleep and feel empathy for the conditions they live in as they sleep on the floor with a few warm blankets they made themselves out of animal skin. It is a week before Christmas and the storm got bad that Jake‚ Burden’s worker‚ could not go and buy the Christmas gifts. So‚ Jimmy wanted to give Yulka and Antonia books with picture so they can improve their English‚ but since Jake
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Antonia is a bohemian immigrant whose father commits suicide due to not being suited to the harsh conditions of the Nebraska prairie. In response to this tragedy‚ she takes on his work. She is a young teenage girl‚ yet she handles the workload of a man to take care of her family. Antonia hires herself out to families in town to support her family and is fired by a good household‚ and is hired
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will demonstrate the current knowledge I have learnt so far in this unit by providing a sociological perspective on health care towards the patient Antonia. Sociology is important to nursing practices and in Antonia’s case even more so‚ given the many circumstances and social differences she is faced with. Optimal health care can be provided to Antonia through the use of a sociological perspective to reflect the wide range of differing views. This Essay will further scope out the sociological issues
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