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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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 three
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The four agreements -by Don Miguel Ruiz Don Miguel Ruiz was born into a family of healers and raised in rural Mexico by a curandera (healer) mother and nagual (shaman) grandfather. The family anticipated don Miguel would embrace their centuries old legacy of healing and teaching and as a nagual‚ carry forward the esoteric Toltec knowledge. Instead‚ distracted by modern life‚ don Miguel chose to attend medical school and later teach and practice as a surgeon. Don Miguel began teaching in the United
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Afterwards‚ the notion of “they rock” can be seen as the faster and unshaken movement of the whales because the faster they rock the more they can get the chance to reach the “depth of the seven seas easily which is a metaphoric usage.To illustrate the word “sensual” is important with its sudden intervention as the meaning might get changed because even though the whales are portrayed with the act of rocking‚ their sexual side is demonstrated.In that sense‚the narrator portrayed the whales with
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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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book “My Antonia” by Willa Cather‚ Jim defines happiness as “to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one‚ it comes as naturally as sleep." I believe that Antonia would agree with Jim’s definition of happiness. I feel this way simply because of a few reasons. In this book Antonia struck me as a free-spirited‚ strong-willed girl. No matter the circumstances‚ she always made the best out of them. She always made something good come out of her hardships. After Antonia and her
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MLA CITATION INCLUDED WITH SOURCES Historical look at the the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather My Antonia: An In Depth Analysis of Immigration in the 1800s The novel My Antonia by the author Willa Cather is set in the late eighteen hundreds. In the story it described an age of change indicating a progression in the social rankings of foreigners. During that time‚ immigrating to America was quite popular among European nations. There were several factors that inspired this mass movement.
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characteristics influence and shape the way a human character will develop. It is believed that there is no escaping this realism‚ and each situation one experiences is what will establish the route of life that they will partake. A short story called “My Antonia”‚ written by Willa Cather is merely categorized with Realism and Naturalism‚ though it is evident that several aspects portray supernatural occurrences. The specific characters throughout these excerpts show the reflection of Naturalism by experiencing
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Relationship of the Past in My Antonia “Some memories are realities‚ and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again”; this quote by Willa Cather expresses the relationship that the past can have on humans. Some would argue that the past has no role in My Antonia‚ almost as if the overall lesson of the novel had gone right over their head. Willa Cather has written the whole novel in flashback form‚ and this has a great effect on the reader. She is trying to show that you can
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