The novel My Ántonia is the story of a Bohemian girl‚ named Antonia Shimerda‚ who immigrates to America with her family in the early 1900s. The story is told through the memory of the narrator’s childhood friend‚ Jim Burden. Jim has just recently been orphaned and makes the move from Virginia to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. On his second day in Nebraska‚ he and his grandmother pay a visit to Antonia and her family. During their visit Mrs. Shimerda asks Jim to teach Antonia English and
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My Antonia is a story about both coming of age. While coming of age seems to be the only main topic in this story‚ this book dabbles in other topics such as dedication and how much one person can mean to one. Jim grows up‚ during the course of the book. Antonia‚ a dear friend to Jim throughout his life‚ is who this book is dedicated to. Jim‚ who moved to Nebraska when he was ten‚ to live with his grandparents.He meets Antonia‚ and becomes quick friends‚ as she is the closest to his age. Both spend
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THE FRIENDSHIP OF ANTONIA AND JIM “Since I’ve been away‚ I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have like to have you for a sweetheart‚ or a wife‚ or my mother or my sister anything that a woman can be to man (Cather 240). In Willa Cather’s My Antonia‚ Jim Burden spoke those words to his lifelong love‚ Antonia Shimerda. Jim and Antonia were close friends‚ but were so far apart in other aspects; therefore‚ they never got a chance to be husband and wife. One
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While reading the novel‚ ’My Antonia’‚ one can very quickly notice that author‚ Willa Cather has much admiration for the character‚ Antonia. Throughout ’My Antonia’‚ readers can conclude that Antonia is a very optimistic and inteligent girl who grows into an independent young woman. Due to such characteristics‚ many people could very easily find themselves admiring Antonia. Antonia Shimerda was born into poverty and grew up dealing with very tragic and stressful circumstances that would take a toll
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Willa Cather’s My Ántonia narrates childhood stories from the perspective of Jim Burden‚ and focuses on his relationship with his close childhood friend Ántonia. Both of the characters move to Nebraska at the same time‚ and influence each other’s lives greatly. Jim Burden grows up to have a deep connection and longing for his past and repeatedly renews the relationships between close friends and hometown. My Ántonia shows the stages of life for a character around the 1900s‚ starting at 10 years
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Antonia Novello The first woman and the first Latina to become the Surgeon General of the United States (1990-1993)‚ was named Antonia Novello. Born and raised in Puerto Rico and a former pediatrician Antonia focused on the health of children and minorities. Antonia Novello was born on August 23‚ 1944 in Fajardo‚ Puerto Rico‚ a town 32 miles southeast of San Juan. Novello came from a poor family. Her parents divorced‚ and her father later died while she was about 5 yrs old. Novello was
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The Nebraska Landscape Humankind’s relationship to its environment is one of the strongest bonds people can make. In Willa Cather’s My Ántonia‚ this relationship is shown through many of the characters want to return to their hometown of Black Hawk‚ Nebraska. What they find they miss is a lost setting‚ a vanished world of people‚ places‚ and natural surroundings. They all develop a strong attachment to the Nebraska landscape‚ which never seems to leave them. Part of the reason for this connection
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My Antonia by Willa Cather Author: Willa Sibert Cather‚ Nebraska’s most noted author was born in Virginia. At the age of ten she moved with her family to Webster County‚ Nebraska. Many of Cather’s acquaintances and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather wrote poetry‚ short stories‚ essays and novels‚ winning many awards. In 1920 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours‚ about a Nebraska farm boy who went off to World War I. Willa Cather’s reputation
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that bad‚ on the contrary it can guide one to success‚ which is another step to acquiring the American Dream. Ambition goes hand in hand with progress‚ self-reliance‚ and individualism‚ some of the tenets for an American Dream. In Willa Cather’s My Antonia‚ Tiny Soderball showed the most in any of the other characters as being a very ambitious person. She was a Swedish immigrant who was determined to go after any aspirations that she had. Jim Burden regarded her as “Tiny Soderball was to lead the
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Irony in Antigone: King Creon In the tragedy Antigone‚ Sophocles pens a tale about a stalwart and distrustful king‚ Creon‚ and his misuse of the power he possesses. In the play he disregards the law of the gods to fit his whims‚ something that the heroine of the play‚ Antigone‚ wholeheartedly disagrees with; she disobeys his order to leave her dead brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied and sentences herself to death in the process. Antigone is engaged to Creon’s son‚ Haemon‚ who does not agree with his father’s
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