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.