While Jim is away, Ántonia gets engaged to a local boy and moves to Denver in order to be with him. Days before the wedding, the boy -abandons Ántonia, and she returns to Nebraska heartbroken. She covers up an unexpected pregnancy throughout its term, but in giving birth to a daughter incurs the disapproval of her family. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. MY ÁNTONIA BOOK I THE SHIMERDAS I. I FIRST heard of Ántonia 1 on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska.
My Ántonia. Willa Cather. Houghton Mifflin, - Czech Americans - pages. 21 Reviews. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land I had never before looked up at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it. But this ws the complete dome of heaven. My Ántonia 1 BOOK I The Shimerdas I. I FIRST heard of Ántonia 1 on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I traveled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the. I finished reading My Ántonia by Willa Cather the other day and have spent the time since digesting what it means to me and generally what the novel has to say. I liked it right away, which is something rarer for me these days, in particular with first or second person narrated novels. Willa Cather has an enviable turn of phrase.
Willa Cather’s My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. My Ántonia is told from the point of view of Willa Cather’s fictional friend, Jim Burden. He writes in the first person, and his use of the pronoun “I” makes you feel his personal involvement. The point of view is immediate and subjective. My Ántonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather's earliest novels, written in , it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants.
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