Willa Cather in her novel My Antonia (yes, a signal phrase) offers her view of life during the pioneer time.
How would My Ántonia be different if it were told from Antonia's perspective?
The reader wouldn't know what the other people was thinking or feeling. knowing only what Antonia knew and feel.
How effective is Cather, a woman, at narrating a story from the point of view of a man? Does Jim sound like a man writing, or does the narrative sound like a woman pretending to be a man?
Sounded like a man writing the novel, some places it sounded like a woman pretending to be a man.
Why do you think Jim changed the title from Antonia to My Antonia?
because he loved and cared for Antonia a lot in the novel. it also made the reader think they would end up together
based on this, i recommend My Antonia to my Friends.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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.
The effect of the land causes the person to see the beauty in the land.
My home setting effects how I grew up and how I behave. During the summer when the sun is high and the breeze is cool and when my family is home we do many outdoor activates. Jeep riding is one of the many activates we do, the roar of the engine and the cry of the tires as we barrel off the roads into the untamed nature. Like deer jumping through the Forrest we bounce across the land explore new places.
"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.
The effect of the land causes the person to see the beauty in the land.
My home setting effects how I grew up and how I behave. During the summer when the sun is high and the breeze is cool and when my family is home we do many outdoor activates. Jeep riding is one of the many activates we do, the roar of the engine and the cry of the tires as we barrel off the roads into the untamed nature. Like deer jumping through the Forrest we bounce across the land explore new places.
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