In the book “My Antonia” by Willa Cather, the character Jim describes happiness as, “. . . to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”. Antonia, a blissfully innocent foriegn girl, would agree with this thought. In the beginning of the book Antonia and Jim are introduced, they can’t speak one word to each other however they get along just fine. They run along and upon a hill they, “could see the gold tree-tops, [Jim] pointed toward them, and Ántonia laughed and squeezed [his] hand as if to tell... how glad she was [he] had come”. Two children of different cultures put together for the first time find happiness together in the surrounding scenery. It is this scene that shows that