Summary: Reflecting Upon My Antonia

Reflecting Upon My Ántonia Being so young and acceptive, children are known to befriend just about any person they come along. They look past flaws and differences that one person may have. Furthermore, this causes them to embrace diversity and love everyone for who they are. Eventually, children grow up and one can only hope that the characteristic of fondness did not make an absence. My Ántonia, an illustrious novel written by Willa Cather, is a perfect example of how some children grow up to always be willing to welcome diversity. The narrator of the book, Jim Burden, described his many adventures with Ántonia Shimerda, who was an immigrant who traveled with her family from Bohemia. Jim’s family kindly greeted the new immigrant family in Black Hawk, Nebraska, where they all resided. While the Burden family had no doubt that the Shimerdas were cordial and innocuous, the

I was able to catch a glimpse of what it was truly like to live in the early 1900s. While it seemed genuinely difficult to live in the old times, the interest was inevitable. Cather vividly painted a picture with words, complementing the old wagon trails, horse-drawn wagons, dry summers, and harsh, cold winters. It was almost as if I was a character within the book. All of the stories that create the book are tremendously composed, due to the fact that Cather refused to miss even one detail. While all of the stories were a pleasure to read, respectively, I had one favorite. The story of the intimidating snake that Jim killed in front of Ántonia took place at the beginning of the book, and remains as the story I enjoyed the most. It truly showed how Ántonia had not experienced most things a normal person would. However, Jim was willing to stay by her side to gain the knowledge and experiences that are imperative in order to be able to live in western