![]() ![]() ![]() “There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. It is no surprise we encounter them first in motion on a train. Both have been wrenched from their origins, Antonia from her native Bohemia, Jim from his parents’ home in Virginia. ![]() Antonia is fourteen when we first see her Jim Burden ten. Willa Cather’s straightforward story of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant to Nebraska, parallels the change in the lives of the two principal characters with the transformation of the Great Plains. ![]()
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