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Willa Cather Assignment 1

Willa Cather Assignment 1

Q Willa Cather's My Ántonia Answer all questions. Be sure to include examples from the text to support your position. That is crucial. You are making arguments, so use the text to support that argument. Format all submissions using MLA standards. 1. Who is the narrator? What picture do we get of his life? What is the reality of his life as it is hinted at in Introduction? 2. Where in part I does Cather explore the relationship between the costs of social acceptance and fulfillment of desire? 3. How does the land reflect stages of human development? Development of human culture? 4. What do the Shimerdas reveal about the frontier experience? 5. What does the story about Pavel and Peter reveal about the nature of community? How does their difficult story inform the tension between old world tradition and pioneer life on the Nebraska prairie?

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The story is written from the perspective of Jim Burden, a childhood friend of Antonia. In the course of this famous novel, we witness the remarkable transformation of the narrator from a ten-year-old boy, unconscious of the battle called Life, into a middle-aged achiever who serves as a Lawyer to the railroad companies.