Antonia
The Shimerdas Book 1
On pg. 6 when Jake asks Jim if he wants to go meet Antonia Jim just nods his head suggesting not. Jake agrees and makes a crack about dirty foreigners. When you read this you are supposed to find it funny or amusing. Cather suggests this through her writing when Jake say “you were likely to get diseases from foreigners”. After Jake says this you’re supposed to chuckle a little, it’s funny.
The Shimerdas Book 1
In the middle of page 14 Cather describes a large garden and the inhabitants of that garden. In her writing she seems to focus upon the nature of things and how they work using imagery and language. This paragraphs focus is on the garden and what takes place there.
It had been years since the last time I took an hour or two to sit and listen to, well, nature. I was sitting on my back porch surrounded by trees and plants. The birds chirped, the grasshoppers hopped, and the bees buzzed. I could hear everything, and nothing. I heard the bugs, the animals, and the trees blowing in the wind. I somehow drowned out the sound of the busy street just a few feet from my yard. It was like nothing I’ve experienced before, just sitting and listening to what nature has to say.
The Shimerdas Book 1
When Jim moved out west he fell in love with the sights. As far as he could see he fell in love with. There was nothing but open land and the red grass that he loved so much. “As I looked about me I felt the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running”.
This love of nature was true about many new settlers. They moved out to the west and fell in love with it much like Jim did. The large open canvas brought inspiration and devotion to many people.
The Shimerdas Book 1
Jim describes the sunflower roads as...
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