Monday, December 19, 2011
My thoughts on My Antonia
Yes, I believe that Willa Cather did offer a little of her view during the pioneer life.Because if it was told from Antonia's perspective, there would have been more of the story about just her and not so much about everybody else. I think that she did a very good job at narrating this story. Jim sounds like a man writing because he was not very specific.I think that the reason that Jim changed the title was because she was part of his family. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel by Willa Cather.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Setting on Your Character.
Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.
Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
Chunk #1: The setting in the novel is able to help the characters feel at home with there selves. The way that the land looks makes the characters in this novel relax in a time as such in the book. And the setting also makes Antonia not want to leave when she grows up, so she does not leave but marries and stays on the prairie.
Chunk #2: The setting in my life makes me the person that I am today. I would hate to live in the city where I was not capable of seeing the beautiful scenery that I am blessed with. I live in the country, that makes up a huge part in my life. If lived in the city, I could not fish, hunt, or be able to work on farms as I do. I am like a child at Christmas when the time comes that I can go hunting. therefore setting plays a huge part in who I am.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.
Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
Chunk #1: The setting in the novel is able to help the characters feel at home with there selves. The way that the land looks makes the characters in this novel relax in a time as such in the book. And the setting also makes Antonia not want to leave when she grows up, so she does not leave but marries and stays on the prairie.
Chunk #2: The setting in my life makes me the person that I am today. I would hate to live in the city where I was not capable of seeing the beautiful scenery that I am blessed with. I live in the country, that makes up a huge part in my life. If lived in the city, I could not fish, hunt, or be able to work on farms as I do. I am like a child at Christmas when the time comes that I can go hunting. therefore setting plays a huge part in who I am.
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