Essay on O’ Pioneers! By Willa Carther

Illnesses, such as Typhoid and cholera, were common and would spread through the wagon trains creating more work for us women (Bledsoe, 1984). The overworked women would in turn become more vulnerable to becoming sick and perishing. Women who gave birth while on the Oregon Trail faced vast difficulty and in many cases the female pioneer or the new born would die. Women pioneers were usually fairly young because women during this time married as young as 14 but quickly toughened up because of the major responsibilities we faced on the trail. Despite the many hardships faced by myself and the other female pioneers, we helped to pave the

The novel Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick has a long list of things to teach us about the New World. The fact that it’s showed us that the very first pilgrims had no idea what they were in for was crucial. They were hit with the realization that the Natives would be wild and ferocious instead of calm and tame. They’d known they would be introduced to new ways of life, and disease, but they didn’t suspect that it’d be the most destructive part to the goodwill of the newly born colony.

In the novel Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick, the author educates us on how the New World was discovered and created. It all started with a group of roughly 100 men and women who originated from England known as the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were sick and tired of the lack of religious freedom and work/economic opportunities. There was no future for the Pilgrims in England. This was all until the group set sail on the Mayflower in order to find new land. After a rough journey, they came across a piece of land now known as New England. The Pilgrims settled here because it was relatively empty. They believed that in New England they would be able to create a godly city or a place where they wouldn’t be criticized for their religious views.

O Pioneers!(1993) by Willa Cather begins on a blustery winter day, in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, sometime between 1883 and 1890. The narrator introduces four main character: the very young Emil Bergson; his older sister, Alexandra; her friend Carl Linstrum; and a little girl, Marie Shabata. Alexandra's father, John Bergson, is dying. He tells his two oldest sons, Lou and Oscar, that he is leaving the farmland, and all of what he has accomplished, to their sister.

In the novel O Pioneers! the author Willa Cather?s vision of Alexandra Bergson is consistent in character treatment with other authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne (Scarlet Letter), and Stephan Crane (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets). In each novel, all authors possess a central character that has an obvious tension between themselves and their community. Unlike the previous authors, Cather?s sympathies lie toward Alexandra. She makes Alexandra seem artificial because she has given a woman (also being her main character) strength and courage, along with power to overcome those who wish to pull her down.

Marie is a country beauty queen, and has a magnetic pull that attracts everyone. The men in the drugstore are impressed and admiring Marie and her beauty, which is the same reaction she receives all her life. Frank could have his pick of the ladies when her comes to town but chooses Marie because she is the prettiest. In Part One, Marie is new to the divide, and is dressed like a city girl. Her beauty sets her apart from others throughout the book. If Frank hadn’t chosen her, her life would have been drastically happier and longer. In Part One, when Emil is attracted to Marie’s fancy clothes and beauty, Alexandra doesn’t pull him away. This is when Emil and Marie are young, but foreshadows their affair. Alexandra realizes in hindsight that she did not pull Emil away from Marie, even though she is married. Alexandra realizes that if she would have paid attention to Marie and Emil, she could have saved

Willa Cather’s, book O Pioneers represents a completely different way of life than traditional life is the early 1900’s . Traditionally, a man’s main job consists of hard labor and a woman’s job involves having children and focusing on home life. Although this happens to be the “norm” of the time, charcters in O Pioneers do quite the opposite. Carl Linstrum, a male character in the novel, does not come across as your “typical” 1900’s man. Another bold character, Alexandra Bergson, defies the social stereotype widely accepted at the time of O Pioneers. She supports herself and does everything that people of her time period believes a man should do. Most relationships being male dominated, it’s obvious that a lot men don’t have respect for women during this time.

In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer has the theme of love presented throughout. Oskar, the main character, had lost his dad during 9/11 and it trying to keep the bond they have alive even though he is dead. Oskar goes on adventures to keep his dad alive in his mind. Oskar’s mom and grandma also have a relationship of love that is told in the novel. Oskar’s

Many authors write different stories that aim to inform their readers about different experience that they went through in their lives. Some of these stories are a narration of how the writers were robbed off the people and things that were dear and near to their hearts. Moreover, they also aim to reveal the state in which they were left after the incidence occurred. Based on this the assignment aims to discuss the case that was against William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims. The story shows that Bradford experienced a given level of theft that devastated his life for a long time and almost ended his literary career. Similarly, the text also shows that the theft also awakens his literary spirit and made it possible for him to write an

In the story O Pioneers! Cather expresses the different character relationship’s with the land as it is their livelihood and it holds the promise that they wanted to find when moving to the west.

Willa Cather is an author who uses similar aspects and events of her life and puts them

Do you think you would be happy when you have a person or thing that you could love? Do you want the person whom you love give back the same love to you? Love and loss are intimately associated. When you are love with someone or something, you may not be concerned that you may have lost another person or thing in the same time. As in the stories, “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Beast in the Jungle” by Henry James, the two authors portrayed different kinds of love of two women, but after they found their love, they also suffered to face tremendous loss in their lives. These stories seemed to be written in a same period, but the two author’s attitudes of the love were totally different. Love was a personal attitude; loss was the value which the person thought that was worth to pay the love, and that might be influenced by cultures.

I do not know how to write this without sounding rude, careless or insensitive. I however did not enjoy the novel at all. It was overall very bland to me; I commend my professor for showing us how to speed read through the novel, to make sure we were getting the most book for our time, and that did help a little bit, however I was not nearly as excited about the novel as I am about Willa Cather’s life.

But the one thing it will never be is practical. Love is irrational by its very nature. It demands passion, fire, and no less than absolute surrender. It is a longing, a burning that consumes you, leaving you without reason, or defense. When love comes, nothing can stand in its way.” I believe the most prominent themes in this book is heartbreak and betrayal. Sophie is no stranger to hurt and deception. Sophie is sent away to marry a man she does not love by her family. “I try to smile, but it’s hollow. Of course, I want my father to be happy and have his lands and title secure; I only wish I didn’t have to sell my soul to Russia to do it.” But even after everything shes been put through since the beginning of the book, Sophie is still able to find love. She finds a man who will treat her like a goddess and love her like she needs too. But even that simple thing is taken from her. To Sophie, everybody betrays her, her family, her lover, and the people closest to her. “When waging a war of the heart, you must only fight if you are absolutely sure you can

For centuries, women have turned and have entrusted in men for advice to fulfill their lives with romance. Some women, even though they had difficulty establishing a satisfactory bond with their spouse, still had a tendency to have a dependency on the male spouse for identity. For a woman to become a "wife" was a defining role in women's lives back then, especially within the eastern European cultures. Sadly, marriage is not always shown to be flowery and romantic as expected. Although Anton Chekov portrays his protagonist character Olga as kind hearted and attractive and favored, she often longs for "love" from the male gender, and serves as the embodiment of female disempowerment.