I’m the book my Antonia by Willa Cather, Antonia the main character learns many helpful lessons throughout her life. She is a fun character, that’s is not afraid of hard work. Throughout the book, she is trying to find herself. She learns three important lessons of independence, responsibility and happiness. Through learning these lessons, Antonia becomes a better person. To begin, Antonia learned and found her independence in order to help her family. After Antonia’s father’s sudden suicide, Antonia took over the farm duties for her family, and so she would be in the field all day. “When the sun was dropping low, Antonia came up the big south draw with her team. How much older she had grown in eight months!”(p.69). Some years later, she ended up moving to the town to work for the Harling’s and then later the Cutters, to help make more money for her family. Then years later, she ran away to get married, but the wedding got called off, but she was pregnant. She became responsible for her child and raised it. Then she actually got married, and had many kids with her husband and raised all her kids, a household, and a farm since her husband was not into farming. …show more content…
She learned that she made a mistake, and got pregnant before marriage, but she took responsibility, and raised the child. Then, she actually gets married, and has a huge family of her own, and takes responsibility for the family. She raises the family and the farm, and raise her children with great happiness through it all. “No, I’m glad I had a chance to learn; but I’m thankful none of my daughters will ever have to work out. The trouble with me was, Jim, I never could believe harm of anybody I loved,
She had 2 sons and got divorced, so she returned to work. She was a lab technician at Tulane Medical School, but she wasn’t going to make enough money to pay for her sons to go to college. One day, she saw that a restaraunt was up for sale. She had no experience in the business, but she decided that she wanted to try
She left her grieving mother and younger siblings to go to Fort Smith to get money that is owe to her father, and find out how she can legally get justice for her father, Frank Ross’s death. While in Fort Smith, she met Reuben Cogburn, a U.S. Marshall, and offered him pay for him to go capture Tom Chaney and bring him back to Fort Smith to go on trial for the death penalty. She met Laboeuf who also was looking for Tom Chaney for a similar crime. Yes, she was able to convince them to let her go on the expedition to capture Chaney,
Her family would sometimes provide food, shelter, and clothes when they had the money, but it was never really how a child should be cared for. She needed to learn how to grow up and quickly, in order to make her life better so after she arrived at Welch she started doing extra curricular activities after school in order to stay longer to avoid going home. She also got a job to help pay for food because her mother quit her job and Rex didn't maintain a steady flow of money, after getting her job she created a
With this interpretation, the focus is Antonia’s lasting effect on Jim- with not as much thought of how the latter affects his older neighbor. Throughout My Antonia, Antonia’s life is shaped by her relationship with Jim. When the Shimerdas first move to the Nebraskan prairies, Jim has just moved in with his grandparents. Jim and Antonia become friends immediately, and it seems as though all will go well for the young girl. Along with being a friend, Jim fulfills Mr. Shimerda’s request of being a teacher to his new neighbor, helping Antonia learn English.
Later on Nanny escaped with her baby to his in the swamps until wave is over. Afterwards when Leafy was seventeen, she ended up raped by her school teacher and got pregnant. I thank god slavery ended because that is not right what the teacher did to her, now she has that terrible memory scar for life. After giving birth she became alcoholic and eventually ran away. I believe she become alcoholic because of what happen to her made her became depressed and stressed, alcohol was the only way to calm down and forget about everything.
If this was all Antonia had done in the efforts towards saving Jews she still would have been a hero. This not only reveals her courage but it also reveals her fortitude, and her ability to think about what she is going to say in stressful circumstances. In so many different situations Antonia could have faltered and altered the course of so many lives yet she never
Lizzie always thought that she was free and had her life back, and things can go back to normal but unfortunately she was wrong. When Lizzie and her sister received the money they bought a house on a hill. The house had all the modern texters that their family home did not. It had a telephone,new plumbing, and the servants were the highest paid in the whole town. The town wanted Lizzie to leave, fall river and rid them of her presence.
For Antonia to maintain her family and the zoo was going to be a challenge she had to accept. Dane ackerman shows the readers how you can not be afraid, take risk, and putting your family first and Antonina zabinski had to do those action for her zoo and family
She was the mother's favorite and always seemed to be better than the main character. She met a group of sketchy boys that showed up at her house and tried to get her to come out. For god knows what, The ending of the story is unclear but you can conclude that she got taken advantage
She eventually would eventually make it to the house where she knew that God had guided her the way he wanted her to go and that everything would progressively get better. That is when her boyfriend/kids dad would buy the kids and they would move up north and this is showing how god truly worked in her life and helped no matter what he was always by her
The story begins with the narrator Jim Burden, age 10, travelling by rail across the country to Nebraska. Having just lost both his parents in Virginia, he is travelling with a hired man Jake Marpole to live with his grandparents. During the journey, Jim reads the "Life of Jesse James," which he thoroughly enjoys. Jim first hears of Antonia on this journey, when a friendly conductor tells him that a Bohemian immigrant family, which can't really speak English, is going to Black Hawk, Nebraska and that they have a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl. Jim travels all day through the huge expanse of Nebraska, and in the middle of the night, they finally get off the train.
She was sold by her mother thinking that she would help the family and have a better life;
At a young age she lost her mother which ended her childhood abruptly, much like the main character Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God. After her mother’s death she also began working odd jobs and traveling,
She started helping around the house, but when she figured out that it wasn’t much, she got a job at the fields and even though she had no experience in it she still went ahead and did it. “Mama had been strong for her. Now it was her turn to be strong for Mama. She must show her that she didn’t need to worry anymore.”(p163) Based on this quote, I can tell that she knew she had to be strong and her Mom’s sickness didn’t make her more sad than she already was, it motivated her to be strong for her mom and whatever was coming up.
In the book My Antonia, the characters developed a lot throughout the story, but one character development that stood out to me was Antonia Shimerda. Antonia's character developed so much in this novel, she becomes a more independent character, but that's only because of the challenges she faced when she moved from Bohemia, her dad committed suicide, she had to work as a servant girl and when her fiancé left her. In the beginning of the novel, Antonia and her family are welcomed into Nebraska. They stay next to Jim Burden and his grandparents, they are the ones who welcomed them.