One of Ours by Willa Cather

Willa Cather Willa Cather, along with many other, were forced to face many struggles throughout their lifetimes. They had to live through some of the worst times, the first World War and the devastating Great Depression, and some of the best times, the passing of the 19th Amendment. These events taught victims to cherish every second of life and it showed that good always triumphs over evil. The Great War, also known as World War I, began when a Serbian Nationalist assassinated Austria-Hungary’s

Willa Cather wrote many novels. One of them is My Antonia. She is an American Author from the regionalism period. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 writing about World War 1. Willa Cather is an American Author who wrote “My Antonia” in 1918. This novel is a short fictional introduction about Jim meeting this little girl named Antonia.When Jim was 10 he was orphaned and he moved from Virginia to Nebraska to live on his grandparents farm. The Shimerda family suffers through tough winters, as they

Willa Cather’s My Antonia and Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain are two literary works that effectively recreate the landscape of the stories they are telling. Their writing styles have a few similar characteristics, such as their word choice and their usage of visual elements; however, they take advantage of various writing elements that make their writing styles distinct, such as the use of figurative language, emotion, and rhetorical questioning. First and foremost, Willa Cather and Mary

O Pioneers by Willa Cather is a different novel from those of its time. It is a novel that stands for women equality represented by the main character Alexandra. O Pioneers reveals a story about Alexandra’s struggle against nature and being a strong woman in a male dominated profession and society. She succeeded in establishing her female identity and achieved a sense of female self-fulfillment by transforming the wild land and struggling for her equal rights with men. This paper focuses on the feminist

An Immense Career Career Willa Cather, American novelist and short-story writer, was born Willela Sibert Cather on 7 December 1873, in Back Creek Valley, Virginia, near Winchester. At nine years of age, in 1883, her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. Many of her novels were set in Red Cloud. She attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and graduated in 1895. She spent a few years after college working on a newspaper, and then worked an editorial job at the magazine Home Monthly in

Cather portraying herself in the characters and the flipped gender roles Considering I am one of the only two males in the Intro to Women’s Literature class, I felt moved to touch on Willa Cather’s flipping of the gender roles in the book O Pioneers! I will be using my own opinion in this essay, along with textual evidence to back up my claims. I will also be establishing connections between Cather’s portrayals of herself within the themes and characters in the book. As we know, Willa Cather was

Willa Cather wrote an amazing story paying respects to the land that she grew up on that perfectly embodies naturalism. However, she herself may not have embodied it as well. You cannot simplify Cather into just one core belief because she writes to represent more than one. Cather demonstrates naturalism, realism, and romanticism in her story O Pioneers!. Naturalism pertains to the belief and writing style where people are under the control of the forces of nature. O Pioneers! Is commonly represents

O Pioneers by Willa Cather sets itself apart from other novels of its time because of what its stands for, feminism. It exemplifies women’s equality, represented by the main character, Alexandra, by showing her survival in a male dominated society. She succeeded in building her female identity and achieved a sense of female attainment by revolutionizing the wild land and struggling for her equal rights with all that surrounded her. This paper focuses on the feminist thoughts and the positive attitude

The Representation of Women in Willa Cather’s My Antonia University of Maine sociologist Amy Blackstone defines gender roles as the following: Gender roles are the roles that men and women are expected to occupy based on their sex. Traditionally, many Western societies have believed that women are more nurturing then men . . . . One way that a woman might engage in the traditional feminine gender role would be to nurture her family by working full-time within the home rather than taking employment

because it shows a peaceful farm with clouds hovering above it. The cover depicts the first part of the novel when Claude is one his farm in Nebraska. It shows his farm and his fortunate house in the view, and has peaceful shades of color making it an attractive book cover. I chose this image because One of Ours by Willa Cather has several different book covers. This is one of the most appealing to me because they not only provide a pretty picture but provide an illustration of events that occurred