I do not remember our arrival at my grandfathers farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy workhorses. How well i remember the stiff little parlour where i used to wait for lena. The story begins with the narrator jim burden, age 10, travelling by rail across the country to nebraska. Every morning i wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. The narrator tells you about a friend of hers named jim burden, a lawyer for one of the transcontinental railroads. After that dude and i went twice a week to the postoffice, six miles east of us, and i saved the men a good deal of time by riding on errands to our neighbours. One evening, a visitor calls for antonia at the harlings. My antonia novelguide free study guide answers, book. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. Antonia was preparing for her wedding when she got a letter from larry saying that his train route had been changed, and that they would have to live in denver. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Check out our revolutionary sidebyside summary and analysis. My antonia book iii, chapters 14 questions and answers. My antonia begins with a short fictional introduction told by a nameless narrator, who may or may not be the author herself.
Yulka showed me the baby and told me that antonia was shocking wheat on the. A summary of book iii, chapters iiv in willa cathers my antonia. My antonia study guide contains a biography of willa cather, literature essays, a complete etext, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. A summary of book iv, chapters iiv in willa cathers my antonia. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and. Next section book i, chapters 110 summary and analysis previous section character list buy study guide. When spring came, after that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of my antonia and what it means. I was lying in a little room, scarcely larger than the bed that held me, and the windowshade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind. My antonia sparknotes literature guide by willa cather making the reading experience fun. Chapters iiv cliffsnotes study guides book summaries. Having just lost both his parents in virginia, he is travelling with a hired man jake marpole to live with his grandparents. See all 4 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
Before i entered the law school i went home for the summer vacation. My antonia book iv summary and analysis gradesaver. If i sat down even for a moment, i was sure to find threads and bits of coloured silk clinging to my clothes after i. Chapters iiv summary jim has been living with his grandparents for nearly three years when they decide to move into the town of black hawk. Book iv, chapters i iv with jim at harvard, away from the constancy of his nebraska childhood, the narrative becomes even more piecemeal, and. My antonia is narrated by jim burden, a young white man who in the course of the novel goes to college, leaves his home of black hawk, nebraska, and later becomes a lawyer.
It was a crisp autumn evening, just cold enough to make one glad to quit playing tag in the yard, and retreat into the kitchen. Two years after i left lincoln, i completed my academic course at harvard. He writes in the first person, and his use of the pronoun i makes you feel his personal involvement. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. His grandmother has already told him the sad news about antonia. My antonia book iv, chapters 14 summary and analysis. On the first or second day of august i got a horse and cart and set out for the high country, to visit the widow steavens. The wheat harvest was over, and here and there along the horizon i could see black puffs of smoke from the steam threshingmachines.
The authors attitude toward the subject material is made evident by her decision to use the form of a memoir albeit it a fictional one. Created by harvard students for students everywhere, sparknotes is a new breed of study guide. Jims memoir is nostalgic and is dominated by a romanticized, rosecolored vision of the past, his youth, and the american west. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of my antonia and what it. In the book my antonia who learns more through their relationship, jim or antonia. Introduction this is a free study guide my antonia pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of antonia,1 first published 1918, is considered one of the greatest novels written by american writer willa cather. Please click on the literary analysis category you wish to be displayed.
We were singing rhymes to tease antonia while she was beating up one of charleys favourite cakes in her big mixingbowl. Previous section book iv, chapters iiv next page book v, chapters iiii page 2 test your. See a complete list of the characters in my antonia and indepth analyses of jim burden, antonia shimerda, and lena lingard. Introduction cliffsnotes study guides book summaries. They are in the process of making popcorn balls at the. My antonia book iii, chapters 14 summary and analysis. Lena lingard, a local farm girl, has come to announce that she has. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature. Summary and analysis introduction summary the narrator meets a childhood friend, jim burden, now a successful lawyer for a railroad company, while on a train trip crossing iowa, and they reminisce about growing up in the same small nebraska town. On the afternoon of that same sunday i took my first long ride on my pony, under ottos direction. I went down across the fields, and tony saw me from a long way off. Back and next buttons can guide you through all the sections or you can choose to jump from section. Harlings suggestion, jim visits the widow steavens, the woman who rents the burdens farm, to get a detailed account of antonia s betrayal by larry and the birth of her baby.