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The hurricane in Florida had cause Miranda and her mom to move to St.Yvette with Miranda’s aunt and the grandfather she never knew. Going to school the following day Miranda gets paired up with five other people to do a project. The group she is put into is the first people she met when she got to school. Getting upset she realize that they are so different from her group of friends back when she was in Florida. In the end she they all become best friends.

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,

Antonia believed that becoming great would come as natural as sleep. Antonia is a reliable and independent young girl who is proud of working on the farm with her family. Antonia is a selfless human being, and she shows that countless times throughout the book. One example of Antonia’s kind heartedness in the book is , “Ántonia loved to help grandmother in the kitchen and to learn about cooking and housekeeping. She would stand beside her, watching her every movement.” This quote from the book gives a glimpse of Antonia’s character and how kind and selfless she really was. Another quote from section 5 of the book says, “After Ántonia had said the new words over and over, she wanted to give me a little-chased silver ring she wore on her middle finger. When she coaxed and insisted, I repulsed her quite sternly.” This quote helps readers understand the type of things Antonia would do. It helps readers understand the type of person Antonia was. Her good nature and helpful attitude played a role in why Antonia believes that being complete would come as natural as sleep. Throughout the whole story she had been helpful to other characters in the book. Antonia is so generous because she has hope in the future that she becomes complete and successful. In Book 1 section 3 it says“ Ántonia came up to me and held out her hand coaxingly. In a moment we were running up the steep draw side together, Yulka trotting after us.” This represents how caring and sincere Antonia was to most

By he end of the book she learns to trust a few select people and starts to open up. Antonia also manages to make a friend, which she was without in the beginning. "Don't worry, Antonia. I'll be in touch. You just enjoy being back home with your own family." Page 183 paragraph 7. By reaching out for help, Antonia realizes that her life is finally starting to head in the right direction and that it all started because she was able to drop her guard with Jazz.

This decision she made happened to be for the worse and it was to leave working for the Harlings, and to work for the Cutters instead. The reason she left is because the Harlings had asked Antonia to stop dancing because it was causing problems and Antonia was not to keen on that idea. Mrs. Harling had said to Antonia “Antonia if you go to the Cutters to work, you cannot come back to this house again. You know what that man is. It will be the ruin of you.” And to this Antonia had become frustrated with Mrs. Harling and decided to stop working with them. And this was the start of her bad decision, because she went to work for the Cutters as well. Now the Cutters were what most people might call crazy and they are what made her decision so bad. One day Mr. Cutter had the intention of raping Antonia but she was fortunate to have her friend over there instead so she was unharmed. Now who would want to work for someone who tries to force themselves on them. This had caused Antonia to leave working for the Cutters, when she could have been still working with the Harlings who were nice

While the times change between both Jim and Ántonia there is something profound about the connection between both of them. Through out the development of the novel both Jin and Antonia change over time and grow to live their own lives. Even though Ántonia lives her own life the distinct reality that emerges is that the beauty and passion that she exhibited towards life and Jim will never leave. As the time passes, the relationship between both acquires greater intensity and depth precisely because time has formed both of their identities. In the end, the relationship between both speaks to the transformation from the precise to the

Although Antonia faces severe hardship, she remains strong and responding to her simple life that focuses on kid raising and family comforts. When Jim visits her after so many years, he realizes that she established a very happy life, a good marriage, and has a large family. Antonia bravery has qualified her to develop self-esteem and become a complete female of pride.Although Antonia faces severe hardship, she remains strong and responding to her simple life that focuses on kid raising and family comforts. When Jim visits her after so many years, he realizes that she established a very happy life, a good marriage, and has a large family. Antonia bravery has qualified her to develop self-esteem and become a complete female of

Cather seems to admire Antonia? There are many things leading up to this admiration. Antonia immigrated to America, her bohemian ways were looked down upon. Her ways made her an outcast, but that didn't stop her. She made it through this after being deserted and having to raise her child alone.This showed her strength and spirit. Ántonia is in love with the dances. She becomes a bit irresponsible around the house in her excitement. But dance she would. The prairie is very hard to women, however, she worked side by side with her husband. This showed that she was a hard worker. As seen Antonia and her husband, 'It was a pretty hard job, breaking up this place and making the first crops grow,' he said, pushing back his hat and scratching his

Throughout My Antonia, the difference between immigrants and native lifestyles are shown. While neither Jim not Antonia is rich, Jim is definitely more well off than her. He knows the language and has enough that he can have more opportunities. Antonia realizes that her life is going to be more difficult and that she will have to work more because of her mother’s decision to move to America. She tells Jim that “if I live here, like you, that is different. Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us,” (90) and knows that her gentle personality might be at stake. This also foreshadows future events where Antonia struggles as an immigrant farmer. It adds obstacles to her life which might lead to them drifting apart in their friendship, even complete separation. This relates to the world in how immigrants had a harder time getting going in life. Antonia’s mother has already become changed because of poverty. She is grasping, selfish, and believes everyone should help her family. Jim’s grandmother defends her, knowing that, “a body never knows what traits poverty might bring out in them,” (60), though it is socially unacceptable. The pressures of helping her family led Antonia to not be educated and become a farmer. She is happy, but this leads to Jim being away, “twenty years before I kept my promise,” (211) as he is a successful lawyer and travels. They still have old connections, though being from Bohemia did change Antonia’s life and where it could have gone.

Like many immigrants, Ántonia faces difficulty with the language barrier. Upon their arrival, the Shimerdas only speak a few sentences of broken English. According to Jim, “They could not speak enough English to ask for advice, or even to make their most pressing wants known” (Cather 46). In the beginning of their friendship, Antonia is unable to communicate efficiently with Jim. For example, during one of Antonia and Jim’s adventures, they come across a snake that sneaks up behind Jim. Antonia, who only speaks little English, is only able to scream at Jim in Bohemian. Although Jim is able to kill the snake, he lashes out at Antonia for speaking Bohemian gibberish. While Ántonia’s ability to effectively communicate with Jim frustrates her, it also makes her more determined to learn English. It is this desire that pushes her to travel, by barefoot, to the Burden’s home daily to acquire new English phrases (Gerber 11). It is through her perseverance that she is soon able to speak English better than any of the other children in Black Hawk.

My Antonia is a philosophical story, with dream-like ideas left and right. Even so, the book’s main theme was clearly the transition or journey from childhood to adulthood. This theme applied to both the main characters, Jim and Antonia, who were children when the story begins and adults when it ends. At ten years old, Jim Burden moved to the plains of Black Hawk, Nebraska. His parents had died in an epidemic, and Jim was sent to live with his father’s parents on their Nebraska farm. In his new home, he met a Bohemian girl named Antonia, a free-spirited, lively, unique personality. He fell in love with her, and although his feelings were not returned, he and Antonia became great friends. The book has numerous examples of traditional obstacles that people their ages go through, along with additional hardships such as poverty and death of close family members. Antonia developed a sense of independence that became her most prominent trait throughout the book. The characters found activities and places where they felt like they belonged, and they began to discover who they were. As Jim (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 was speaking of a place

A4. There are a few characteristics that Antonia exhibits that lead to Cather's admiration of her. One of them is Antonia's ability to be a hard worker. For example, after Antonia's father died, she helped her mother and brother work in the fields. One quote that proves this is "If I rode over to see her where she was ploughing, she stopped at the end of the row to chat for a moment, then gripped her plough handles, clicked to her team, and waded on down the furrow, making me feel like she was now grown up and had no time for me". This quote shows that Antonia was growing up and becoming a hard worker in the aftermath of her father's death because she only talked to Jim for a moment before going back to work. Another characteristic that Antonia exhibits that led to Cather's admiration of her is her

Antonia knows the struggle firsthand since she has faced the harsh conditions of starting off in a new country since she is a Shimerda. Antonia tells Jim,“’ If I live here, like you, that is different. Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us’” (Cather 90). Antonia knows the racial difference between her and Jim. She has to work harder than the native speakers to be able to achieve what might come easily to them. Later on in the novel, Antonia goes off with a guy named Larry Donovan he informs her that his job has moved. This ended up being a lie. He leaves her whilst she's pregnant, so she becomes a single mom. Jim expresses his thoughts, “I was bitterly disappointed in her [Ántonia]. I could not forgive her for becoming an object of pity” (Cather 192). Jim expresses his dismay that Antonia has basically ruined her life by putting faith into a man of words. Antonia’s reputation fell drastically after this and it appears as though it would be hard to pick up. However, when Jim returns, he ends up being wrong. In the literary criticism, Anthony M. Dykema-VanderArk states, “She appears at the end of My Antonia as a figure who has tri­umphed over the hardships of her life through stal­wart struggle...ensuring an easier future for her children” (Dykema-VanderArk 211). Antonia has gone through a lot throughout her life. Her father’s death to ruining her reputation by being oblivious. Her race caused her to be inferior compared to the women that don't have to work in order to survive, but she still gives a good life to her children. Despite her hardships, she still kept to her strong attitude and doesn't sway away from it. That's success through the work she put

Each of the women face hardships with family, life in general, and men. Antonia a young, Bohemian girl is faced with many challenges and hardships throughout her life. After the death of her father, Antonia is obliged to start living by working in the fields alongside the men. Every member in her family depends on her both physically and emotionally. “With the death of her father, Antonia is forced to work on the family farm for her family to survive, and this shift in her role sparks a change in her identity. Antonia now wears some of her father’s belongings to suggest that she has indeed moved into a role that her father was supposed to play” (Everton). Antonia’s brother, Ambroch, makes use of her abilities as much as he can. When she works out on the fields he profits from the cash that she earns because he is the man of the household. “Antonia worked as a hired girl at the Cutters, and she was worried about Cutter’s intentions towards her. The moneylender, Wick Cuter, was known in Black Hawk as stingy towards his customers and over friendly to young girls . . . . Wick’s wife needed to go to Omaha for the weekend, and as a result of Wick’s infidelity she forced him to go with her. Although it seemed that Wick had left with his wife, Antonia still feared his intentions and pleaded with Jim to stay the night at the Cutters in her place . . . during the

Antonia, despite having an enormous warmth about her, is too simpleminded and preoccupied with manual labor in order to have time to reflect on the meaning of happiness; nevertheless, she is always dissolved in the moment which allows her to unconsciously live by Jim's definition of happiness. She often finds herself completely submerged in her joys which predominantly come in form of her work, personal freedoms, and family. She said once, "'I belong on a farm. I'm never lonesome here like I used to be in town... And I don't mind work a bit if I don't have to put up with sadness'"(Book 5, Section1). Here it is evident that her work on the farm allows Antonia to forget her troubles and keep her from being lost in her negative thoughts. She was also found bragging to Jim about the