Born Willa Cather on December 7‚ 1873 she spent the first nine years of her life in Back Creek‚ Virginia‚ before moving with her family to Catherton‚ Nebraska in April of 1883. In 1885 the family moved in Red Cloud‚ the town that has become synonymous with Cather’s name. My Antonia is 1st person. I can say this because‚ Jim Burden tells the story and the events that happen. All languages change over time and vary according to place and social setting. The way we speak is influenced by many factors
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Holden Caulfield and Sally Hayes after ice skating scene: (Holden and Sally are sitting in a coffee shop right next to the ice skating rink in Central Park making small talk‚ when Holden comes up with an idea) Holden: Sally‚ I got this idea. Okay so I got this idea that maybe you and I could get the hell out of here. Sally: Out of this coffee shop? Why the hell would we wanna do that? Its cold outside‚ and I don’t need to be home for another two hours. Holden: No‚ no‚ no! Sally‚ don’t be ridiculous
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American literature III 17 May 2018 James’ influence on Cather Each writer will have their own writing styles‚ while these can be traced back to the childhood or adolescence or even can be influenced by other writers. Henry James‚ a well-known psychologist‚ novelist and philosopher‚ forming his writing styles in his young age. Then‚ as his literature works being published‚ they have great impact on some of writhers‚ for example‚ Willa Cather. And I will discuss Henry James first‚ and to analyze
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Carolyn DeGrazia Professor Gerald January 30‚ 2012 Character Analysis Willa Cather once said‚ “Where there is great love‚ there are always wishes.” She makes this quote relevant in her Pulitzer-prize winning novel‚ One of Ours. One of Ours is a story about Claude Wheeler‚ a young man from Nebraska‚ struggling to find his purpose in life. Throughout the entire novel‚ he only has one consistent presence in his life that truly believes in him and that is his mother. Mrs. Wheeler‚ a Protestant
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Willa Cather‚ through her writing‚ seems to admire Antonia Shimerda. Antonia is a young girl with great strength and courage. Her family having moved to a foreign land‚ without knowing anyone and barley being able to speak the language‚ speaks of the courage of the entire family. When her father can’t take the stresses put before him‚ he commits suicide. This leaves Antonia and the rest of the family to deal with the problems that he couldn’t. "Ántonia is a natural born mother"‚ I feel that Cather
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person. For example‚ Lena‚ a friend of Antonia‚ would have a different relationship with Antonia than her brother Ambrosch would. Both Lena and Ambrosch have a different relationship with Antonia than her childhood friend Jim whom she grew up with. Willa Cather included book three in her novel My Antonia because Antonia played such an important role in Jim’s childhood‚ and because book three shows us who Jim has become so we can better understand his relationship with Antonia. The people we spend a
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I believe that Cather tried to use mostly the Naturalistic point of view. Although Cather also used some Romanticism‚ she mainly focused on the Naturalistic view such as the beginning and the near end of the story. Ivar and Marie show good examples of Cather’s Romantic side. However‚ though Cather focused mainly on Naturalism‚ she did use Romanticism. Her character Ivar had a Romantic point of view along with Marie’s actions also shows Romanticism. Ivar uses his description of the terrifying
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Willa Cather has written different versions of her pieces or work. At times she has changed the wording‚ added or even taken pieces of the novel or passage out. One example of this is her novel O Pioneers!. In the later version of this novel‚ she takes out a passage in the chapter of VIII. In the passage that removed there was an important quote that was removed with it. This quote was “two white butterflies ... fluttering in and out among the interlacing shadows; diving and soaring‚ now close together
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In the novel One of Ours Cather illustrates World War 1 different then most. From the somewhat graphic descriptions of injuries and death to the calm village scenes to meditations on what it must have meant for so many young men to finally find meaning in their lives just when they were most at risk of losing everything. She often romanticized the war but at the same time she made it well balanced. She showed the war as a monstrous thing that was fought by decent-hearted people in defense of their
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novel‚ Willa Cather vividly described the condition and burden circumstances faced by immigrants by depicting Antonia as the central protagonist in the whole story. The relationship between the introduction and the body of the novel was quite fantastically narrated because Cather with her wonderfully portrayal of Antonia. The author drew the minds of the readers and made them to look deeper in the real life experience that almost many newly immigrants faced in their new settlement. Cather used a
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