Immigration In My Antonia
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Historical look at the the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Antonia: An In Depth Analysis of Immigration in the 1800s
The novel My Antonia by the author Willa Cather is set in the late eighteen hundreds. In the story it described an age of change indicating a progression in the social rankings of foreigners. During that time, immigrating to America was quite popular among European nations. There were several factors that inspired this mass movement. Immigrants found opportunities throughout the United States but preferred that of the rural west compared to those of the settled east. This idea brought on a diverse metamorphosis to cultural aspects of the west.
Traversing west was quite harrowing …show more content…
At age nine she traveled by this railroad to Red Cloud: the location of one of the railroad’s headquarters. That same railway provided the route for others such as Margie Anderson, a hired girl. Annie Sadilek, who was Cather’s inspiration when writing My Antonia, and her family also traveled by this rail line to reach Red Cloud. Red Cloud, renamed Black Hawk in Cather’s story, was described as, “the end of the railroad” (Cather 142). Jim Burden moved there to live with his grandparents and met Antonia indirectly while both were traveling to Black …show more content…
Although it was hard they thought it was better to “farm the cheap land” (“History”), then to be living back in Europe. A lot of times older siblings had to take jobs to help their parents feed all the mouths at home. These hired girls and sometimes boys were described as being, “early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new” (Cather 127). They were considered a nuisance by the wealthy. It caused a “curious social situation in Black Hawk” (Cather 127). Fortunately, thanks to their hard work, their siblings and the generations to come after them were wildly
Historical look at the the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Antonia: An In Depth Analysis of Immigration in the 1800s
The novel My Antonia by the author Willa Cather is set in the late eighteen hundreds. In the story it described an age of change indicating a progression in the social rankings of foreigners. During that time, immigrating to America was quite popular among European nations. There were several factors that inspired this mass movement. Immigrants found opportunities throughout the United States but preferred that of the rural west compared to those of the settled east. This idea brought on a diverse metamorphosis to cultural aspects of the west.
Traversing west was quite harrowing …show more content…
At age nine she traveled by this railroad to Red Cloud: the location of one of the railroad’s headquarters. That same railway provided the route for others such as Margie Anderson, a hired girl. Annie Sadilek, who was Cather’s inspiration when writing My Antonia, and her family also traveled by this rail line to reach Red Cloud. Red Cloud, renamed Black Hawk in Cather’s story, was described as, “the end of the railroad” (Cather 142). Jim Burden moved there to live with his grandparents and met Antonia indirectly while both were traveling to Black …show more content…
Although it was hard they thought it was better to “farm the cheap land” (“History”), then to be living back in Europe. A lot of times older siblings had to take jobs to help their parents feed all the mouths at home. These hired girls and sometimes boys were described as being, “early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new” (Cather 127). They were considered a nuisance by the wealthy. It caused a “curious social situation in Black Hawk” (Cather 127). Fortunately, thanks to their hard work, their siblings and the generations to come after them were wildly