In her novel “My Antonia,” Willa Cather shows the impact the Hired Girls have on Jim is the way they offer him a nostalgic connection to his past by using the works of Virgil, and from this connection Jim is able to reach deep intellectual and personal understanding. After being away from his childhood home for many years, and in the midst of pursuing his studies, Jim is reunited with Lena Lingard. The effect she has on him is immediate and lasting, and after seeing her for the first time Jim finds himself thinking of the past. “When I closed my eyes I could hear them all laughing - the Danish laundry girls and the three Bohemian Marys.
Maria Teresa talks about her crushes and we learned how inexperience Maria Teresa is in his young life. Maria Teresa talks her mom into buying her a second brand-new pair of shoes and gets a crush on her cousin Berto, while Minerva talks about rebelling against the state and how her friends family all died from the reign
Because of this, Antonia is forced to work long and arduous hours to provide for her family. As an immigrant Antonia uses her innate virtues of trust, hospitality, and selflessness to endure the trials she encounters in her new homeland. In her relationships, Antonia prominently displays credulity. Entrusting Jim Burden with “a little chased ring
This visitation had intensified the already vivid memories of his childhood. Lena’s visit had brought along an aura of warm and friendship with her. Lena’s visit had brought along a surge of flashbacks as Jim had stated he could plainly hear the laughs of the Danish and Bohemian girls. However, Lena eventually has to leave and Jim’s best days fled with her. Though everyone goes through a cycle of some sort throughout their life the one I have witnessed while reading My Antonia is to an extent is very different.
Months later, Jim comes back with a book titled “My Antonia.” The use of the prefix “my” when describing Antonia illuminates the importance of their past,
As a result of the relationship coming to an end, Norma starts strengthening herself so that she can leave her husband,
Antonia was around the same age as Jim so she gravitated toward him. Jim was Antonia's first friend when they moved to Nebraska. Jim taught Antonia how to speak English
The feeling of exhilaration was a feeling like no other. The commotion in dancing soon lead to the girls shouting out the men they desired. My heart wanted to scream out that I loved John Proctor, but instead I whispered something to Tituba much sweeter than love. I wished death upon Elizabeth Proctor! That nasty woman has done nothing but put blush on my name.
The Cleveland Policy Planning Report of 1975 was written as an initial response to the social and economic hardships plaguing residents in Cleveland during the rust belt city era. Norman Krumholz, the executive director of the Cleveland Planning Commission at the time, felt that the commission had a responsibility to serve Cleveland by assessing planning related issues and recommending goals designed to aid the residents suffering the most. Realizing the tremendous imbalance of income and power between residents, the commission derived an overall goal "of promoting a wider range of choices for those individuals and groups who have few, if any, choices. " Priority was given to the analysis of the following factors: income, housing, transportation
[Elizabeth Proctor] hates me, uncle, she must, for I would not be her slave. It’s a bitter woman, a lying, cold, sniveling woman, and I will not work for such a woman!” She quickly denies any rumors about her name and puts the blame on Elizabeth Proctor. She
Social barriers were one reason why Jim didn’t pursue Antonia romantically. Antonia, also known as Tony, was a poor, uneducated immigrant that moved in America with her family to find a better life. Jim, on the other hand, was an average, educated youth, moved in Nebraska to live with his grandparents. He remembered how Antonia’s father begged to teach Antonia in English (19). Immigrants were poor that they could not even provide proper education to their children like how Mr. Shimerda asked a ten-year-old Jim to educate a fourteen-year-old Antonia.
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.
Town life wears at Antonia and Jim’s innocence—Antonia capers with young men at a local dancing tent, and Jim flirts with pretty Bohemian immigrant Lena Lingard. Later at college, Jim’s secret love for Lena and close friendship with her distract him from his studies. Escaping to Harvard for renewed
During the Particicution they bring out a man who is accused of rape. Aunt Lydia points out "The
She lies to herself when she says, “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam 's dead sisters. And that is all.
