which was required to settle the American frontier. These key ingredients mixed with an untamed land tempered the settlers into what we know them today as Americans which may be observed within Willa Cather’s My Antonia as the reader follows the lives of three key characters: Lena‚ Jimmy‚ and Antonia. Cather herself searched for her own individualism which she juxtaposed in this 1918 literary work with the character Jimmy. Both he and the author of the story were born in Virginia and at an early age
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creates distress‚ causing downfalls to one’s being. In Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case‚” Paul‚ the protagonist views money as the key to escape his poor life and live the fabulous life he deserves. As other factors shape Paul’s way of viewing money as the escape route‚ it only leads him to an undesirable path. Paul’s misunderstanding of the value of money leads to unrelenting disappointments‚ resulting in his tragic downfall. “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather tells a story of a young boy who dreams the life
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Sometimes in movie production a film is developed from a piece of literature. Directors will use the plot of a book either to create a unique movie‚ or to give the audience a chance to see what their favorite book is like when acted out on the screen. Willa Cather’s "Paul’s Case" is a good example of a work adapted to video. The movie has slight differences from the book‚ but the director Lamont Johnson follows the original closely. Most movies that are inspired by books hold some relation to the author’s
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"My Antonia" Essay My Antonia‚ a realistic fiction novel written by Willa Cather‚ tells the story of a boy named Jim‚ who meets a young lady named Antonia Shimerda whom‚ though she had many trials‚ goes through life happy‚ and eventually becomes a successful mother. Antonia dealt with numerous hardships‚ as she was becoming an adult. She experienced a trip from Bohemia to America‚ the death of somebody close to her‚ was almost rapped‚ and many more destitutions. But‚ even though Antonia was
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she focuses more on things I would expect to be more of female interest and is more likely to be recognized or mentioned by women: I have read many diaries written by women on the overland trails and written about their lives at the frontier ( Willa Cather does that‚ too). All of them had a very special way of treating landscape and Indians in their writings. Especially with landscape they were very detailed‚ sometimes this was the only thing they wrote about for days. It also seemed to me that compared
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In Willa Cather’s Paul’s Case‚ the author suggests that if a person can’t find his right role in society‚ he will try to escape it or failing to escape it will destroy himself. This story depicts a young man Paul who hates his ordinary life‚ and escapes to a luxury life he has been desiring eventually commits a suicide. The various settings of this story not only clearly reflect Paul’s sentiments between depression and happiness through different location but also reinforce the reason why Paul takes
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Country vs. City In the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather‚ Antonia Shimerda and Lena Lingard share a few similarities: they are both immigrants to America; they are both in their own way very beautiful women; and they are both very independent and accomplished women. However‚ they differ in personal appearance‚ lifestyle‚ and values. Antonia was very beautiful as a young girl‚ but as the years have passed‚ the struggles she has faced growing up in her life show in her outward appearance. She
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In her short story “Paul’s Case‚” Willa Cather’s use of red carnations serves as a symbol for her protagonist Paul’s own life. The carnations‚ alongside the significance of the color red‚ appear multiple times throughout the story. They exemplify the statement Cather makes about how people and objects who attempted to live a different kind of life in the early twentieth century were not rewarded. Cather cleverly takes advantage of her third person omniscient narration to provide the reader with different
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“I’ve Got Out at Last”: The Comparison of the Individual vs. Society Theme in Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” Kaitlin English 1110-03 Feburary 16‚ 2012 There comes a time in certain individuals’ lives where they feel it is necessary to fight for what they believe in. Many a time‚ this decision puts them at a crossroads with the preconceived expectations of society
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of the 20th century‚ it is clear that the natural environment and ecology have played a very significant role in the development of literary tradition. Two examples of this movement can be seen in the various works of poet Robert Frost and author Willa Cather’s‚ My Antonia. Nature figures prominently in Frost’s poetry‚ and his poems usually include a moment of interaction or encounter between a human speaker and a natural subject or phenomenon. These encounters culminate in profound realizations
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