Passage | Interpretation | Page # | “My husband’s not home‚ sir. Can I do anything?” -Antonia | Ántonia doesn’t recognize Jim. He has changed due to the business life and wondering away from his home‚ even though he wanted to keep things the same. Ántonia on the other hand did changed and grow‚ just like the land she lives on. It shows almost an Irony (diction trope) because he leaves Antonia saying he’ll return and she anticipates it‚ yet she’s the one that forgets him. | 214 | “You ought to
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My Antonia is a book written by Willa Cather. Willa Cather uses many different symbols from nature in her writing. She would use the symbols from nature to symbolize other aspects of the characters lives. One example of Willa Cather using nature symbols is the light. Cather uses light to refer to change. Anytime that there is a big change coming in the book‚ there is a reference to the light. One example of this is when in the beginning of the book when Jim meets Antonia for the very first time
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Willa Cather’s My Anthonia‚ in my opinion was not only easy to read but also a thoroughly enjoyable read. It tells the vivid stories of several immigrant families who move to the rural state of Nebraska to start new lives in America. A Bohemian family‚ by the name of the Shimerdas‚ is one of the main focal points of the story. The eldest daughter of the Shimerda family is named Antonia. The book’s narrator‚ Jim Burden‚ arrives in the town of Black Hawk‚ Nebraska‚ on the same train as the Shimerdas
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them at high risk of committing suicide. In My Antonia‚ by Willa Cather‚ Mr. Shimerda was one of those unfortunate people. Many circumstances had led to his death‚ which had tremendous effect on his family and people around him. Mr. Shimerda came to America with his family from Bohemia in order to start a new life. He and his wife had four children‚ two sons and two daughters. Ambrosch was 18‚ an eldest son and his brother‚ Marek‚ was youngest one. Antonia was Yulka’s big sister and they were a few
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have touched the heart. Quite possibly‚ that is why Cather has proved to be so successful and a master of literature. I know that I personally always try to relate what I’m writing to my life‚ otherwise I can’t really get into it so it appears uninteresting and unrelatable. In both The Sculptor’s Funeral and My Antonia‚ the characters left to pursue success elsewhere. Both Jim and Harvey left their homes and towns for better education and careers. Unfortunately‚ the boys were each dissapointed with
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Country vs. City In the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather‚ Antonia Shimerda and Lena Lingard share a few similarities: they are both immigrants to America; they are both in their own way very beautiful women; and they are both very independent and accomplished women. However‚ they differ in personal appearance‚ lifestyle‚ and values. Antonia was very beautiful as a young girl‚ but as the years have passed‚ the struggles she has faced growing up in her life show in her outward appearance. She
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My Ántonia: The Natural Changes in Willa Cather’s Work My Ántonia‚ a novel by Willa Cather‚ is written in the account of Jim Burden‚ a fictional character who resembles Cather in a lot of ways. Being born in Virginia but grew up in Nebraska‚ Willa Cather is famous for her works about life on the Great Plains of the Mid-West. This story‚ supposedly written by Jim‚ is set in the stage of westward migration in the mid-late 1800s‚ and tells Jim’s experience as a child growing up in Black Hawk‚ Nebraska
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The novel‚ My Antonia‚ begins with Jim Burden‚ who is a New York City Lawyer. He gives a friend his journal of his Nebraska childhood. It is in the form of memories from a friend‚ Ántonia Shimerda. Jim starts his story in Nebraska when he was 10 years old. He had arrived to live with his grandparents after his parents die in Virginia. Jim first sees the Shimerdas on his trip towards Nebraska. They are a Bohemian immigrant family who were on the same train. When he arrives‚ he discovers that the
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somewhere on the prairie” (50-51). Willa Cather My Antonia In the book‚ My Antonia‚ Jim Burden finds himself an orphan leaving his beloved home to a new‚ stranger place. When he first arrives he observes the country and how different the surroundings are. Throughout the story Jim finally settles in and has a new friend‚ Antonia. Many things happen and soon we are mourning over the death of Mr. Shimerda. His death was a big event and effected Antonia and her family. Her family was forced to work
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My Antonia: (Individualism: Its Influence over Lena‚ Jim and Ántonia During Their Childhood‚ Adolescence and Adulthood) “The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny‚ Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being”--- Dag Hammarskjold.1 This individualist journey‚ Hammarskjold refers to‚ consists of two very important elements which contribute to individualism: (1) having the awareness of personal accountability before the Lord and Savior and (2) having
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