Willa Cather's Use Of Nostalgia In My Antonia
In this novel, Willa Cather vividly described the condition and burden circumstances faced by immigrants by depicting Antonia as the central protagonist in the whole story. The relationship between the introduction and the body of the novel was quite fantastically narrated because Cather with her wonderfully portrayal of Antonia. The author drew the minds of the readers and made them to look deeper in the real life experience that almost many newly immigrants faced in their new settlement. Cather used a story of young man of Virginia and a daughter of a family of bohemian immigrants Antonio who both arrived in Nebraska to be pioneers at the end of 19th century. The author also did a great use of nostalgia on the novel by giving a wonderful
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Shimerda died, and since Shimerda family is considered religious, there was likely and highly evident that committing a suicide would be the last decision every committed religious person would do. But the presentation of the whole scene to us made it look like murder or suicide had occurred. But looking at the presentation of the scene if we ought to reconstruct the death scene would raise many questions as well looking at how some parts of his body was found all over the ceiling. There was quite some contradicting and so many conflicting theories. But what has actually made this story interesting is the fact that the author presented before us the saga of a life of an immigrants that often faced with uncertainty in one way or another in order to get adjusted to the life style of the new destination. These adjustments of course comes with prices, sometimes many new settlers may find themselves more alienated in some instances and usually its because of lack of understanding between the two different cultures. Most of the time the children of the immigrants does not find it hard to get adjusted because their generation is totally different to that of their parents. This was a wonderful story and vividly described to the audience what is really means to be a new comma in a totally different environment that usually comes with both fortune and sometimes
Shimerda died, and since Shimerda family is considered religious, there was likely and highly evident that committing a suicide would be the last decision every committed religious person would do. But the presentation of the whole scene to us made it look like murder or suicide had occurred. But looking at the presentation of the scene if we ought to reconstruct the death scene would raise many questions as well looking at how some parts of his body was found all over the ceiling. There was quite some contradicting and so many conflicting theories. But what has actually made this story interesting is the fact that the author presented before us the saga of a life of an immigrants that often faced with uncertainty in one way or another in order to get adjusted to the life style of the new destination. These adjustments of course comes with prices, sometimes many new settlers may find themselves more alienated in some instances and usually its because of lack of understanding between the two different cultures. Most of the time the children of the immigrants does not find it hard to get adjusted because their generation is totally different to that of their parents. This was a wonderful story and vividly described to the audience what is really means to be a new comma in a totally different environment that usually comes with both fortune and sometimes