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1. Jim Burden describes happiness on page 17 as “to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” Antonia would agree as she gained her happiness from the outdoors and nature. When Jim made this description of happiness he was sitting down in the middle of a garden and leaning on a pumpkin. Antonia and Jim both traveled to Nebraska leaving places that they loved. Jim had just lost his parents while Antonia left her homeland that she loved dearly. Her father’s sadness was noticeable to Antonia and she held that burden close to her heart. She longed for her father to overcome his sadness of missing their home in Europe. She recognizes that her family was not the same. On page 11, Jim acknowledges

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