Comparing Jim And Antonia's Home

Nora Helmer and Kristine Linde, both characters from A Doll House, are similar in more ways than not. A Doll House was written by Henrick Isben in 1727. A Doll House is mainly focused on the actions of Nora Helmer who has a long hidden secret from her husband and presently being blackmailed with it. Nora has an old classmate visit her named Kristine Linde to whom she tells her secret to, the only person. Even though Kristine and Nora are separated by years in age their hopes and desires are all to familiar.

Jim and Ántonia have a very close relationship, however, they face many trials and hardships as Ántonia works and Jim pursues an education.

My Antonia is a philosophical story, with dream-like ideas everywhere you look. Even with all these ideas and feelings floating around, the book’s main idea was clearly the transition from childhood to adulthood. At ten years old, Jim Burden moved to the plains of Black Hawk, Nebraska. His parents had died of an outbreak, and Jim had to be sent to his father’s parents’ farm. In his new home, he meets a Bohemian girl named Antonia, a free-spirited, lively, unique personality. He falls in love with her, and although his feelings are not returned, he and Antonia become great friends. The book has numerous examples of traditional obstacles that a person their age goes through, along additional hardships such as death in the family and poverty. Antonia develops a sense of independence that is her most prominent trait throughout the book. The characters find activities and places where they feel like they belong and they begin to discover who they are. The narrator states, “The new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home again.” Jim is speaking of a place where he can be free, riding his horse across the Nebraskan plains. This is only one example of the characters finding a place to be and find themselves. As the story goes on,

In this excerpt from Willa Cather’s My Antonia, as it nears night in the prairie of Nebraska. Jim Burden returns to his hometown of Black Hawk, visiting family and friends during his summer vacation before he starts Law School. He first visits his Grandparents and other family friends, but finds himself reminded of Antonia, his childhood friend who he grew up with. He walks to Antonia’s house, and Antonia’s sister directs him to the field where she is working. Their reunion is sentimental, as the friends were apart for many years apart, with Jim living and studying in Lincoln, and Antonia farming and homesteading on the prairie. As they walk together in the warm August air, they each share stories of their new lives, their dreams, hopes

In the first place, everyone has a different view on what home is to them. Throughout the book Laila talks about her old home and how it was so different from her current “home.” In the book it reads, “Now we sit in our airless apartment, curtains closed against the outside world, pretending. My Mother pretends nothing has changed (Carleson 3).” From the start of the novel Laila references this foreign county as her home. She never specifies what country we just know it is a Middle Eastern country. Laila was forced to move to United States which is a big culture change from her home. She names many differences from the start. The first one she mentions is going to the store and buying your own cereal which is very strange to her. It is not

Although Jim is teaching Antonia, he learns so many new things about her family and culture. Mr.Shimerda wanted Jim to teach his daughter English so someone in his family would know how to speak the American language. Jim was so caring and uderstanding toward the Shimerda's.

I strongly believe that Jim learned a lot more from Antonia that anyone expected, than he expected. Mr. Shimerda, Antonia's father begs Jim to "Te-e-ach, Te-e-ach my Antonia", but all story long she was the one doing the teaching. In my opinion we are not really certain on what Antonia learned from Jim and what was going through her head the whole story, only what Jim assumed that she has learned. Jim is also the narrator of this whole story so we have a front row seat on what Jim is thinking throughout that Story. We only know what Jim thinks and what he believes he knows.

Home is supposed to be a place where people feel secure more than any other place. The narrator makes his home a living hell for his wife, cats, and himself. As a person who killed a cat and his wife, it should be expected to see

First of all, Jim is the narrator, so we are privy to his innermost thoughts. The story of Antonia is only told through Jim's narrative, and Jim's perspective, so we truly don't know what she learns, just what Jim thinks she may have learned. Also, from the beginning, Jim is a brooding, alienated, cerbral character. He learns a lot about who he is and who he is not from observing the way, Antonia lives, the way she interacts with her family and others not always to her better man, and by weighing his own philosophies and way of life against hers, he learns more about himself. We don't have any evidence in the novel that Antonia does this in return. In fact, she mostly rejects the way Jim chooses to do things and when he gives her advice about

Antonia wouldn’t understand Jim’s idea of happiness. Her life was so different from Jim. She didn’t know what he had been through to get his contentment. Jim had his own sorrow with the death of both parents. He is taken on a long, hard journey to Nebraska to live with grandparents he didn’t know. I can imagine the relief he had felt to have a home with people who loved him. He knew when the grandmother said to herself, “My, how you look like your father!” He remembered his father had been her little boy. To him, having the comforts of shelter and food wasn’t as important as knowing someone cared. These feelings hit him one day in the garden. His fears melted away with the warmth of the sun.

QUESTION 2: Throughout their relationship, both Jim and Antonia learn many things. While they both learned a lot of things, I think that Jim learned the most important things. Jim taught Antonia some obvious things like how to speak English, which he does even before he is asked. For example, when he and Antonia first real interaction together this happened, “She pointed up to the sky, then to my eyes, then back to the sky, with movements so quick and impulsive that she distracted me, and I had no idea what she wanted. She got up on her knees and wrung her hands. She pointed to her own eyes and shook her head, then to mine and to the sky, nodding violently. "Oh," I exclaimed, "blue; blue sky."”. He also taught her about his culture and how

Jim and Antonia had a strong bond from the very first time their eyes met. In fact, I think many will agree that Jim was in love with her. She was significant in his life, from the way he described the littlest feature of her such as her eyes, to his simplest actions in which portrayed how he cared for her so heavily. He showed his care such as him giving his coat to her on a snowy and cold ride through the land and other simple, yet meaningful, gestures. To the readers , strong signals are sent out to depict the analyzation of their future relationship which,surprisingly, never occurs.

     The home can be defined as the social unit formed by a family living together. So the home is not a place, or is it? It has been said that ‘the home is where the heart is’, but where is your heart? The home is also, perhaps, where your family is. A man who has a family does not feel at home when away from them. This is not only because his heart is with his family, but because he is somewhere

Home is more of a feeling than an actual, physical place; it is an ineffable sense of deep belonging that instills in people confidence and security. Home can be anything that makes people feel safe, secure, and perfectly connected with what they love. Unfortunately for the characters in Eugene O’Neill’s play Long Day’s Journey into Night, because their versions of home exist

Home is a geographical space -- a site where we live but it is also ‘an ideal and an imaginary that is imbued with feelings’1 .Somerville(1992) has picked out seven key aspects of being at home: shelter, hearth,(emotional and physical well-being),heart(loving and caring relations), privacy, roots(source of identity and meaning, fullness),abode and paradise(ideal home as distinct from everyday life)2.Down the ages, we have associated ‘home’ as a haven, far away from the hostility and surveillance of the outside world. It is in the privacy of home that an individual gives expression to his ideas. The domestic items from curtains and furniture to books and records all contribute to the development of an individual. In all its details, a home