Current book: My Antonia
Pages read: 4 - 65
10-year-old Jimmy moves to Nebraska to live with his grandparents, where he meets the neighboring family, the Shimerdas, and their 14-year-old daughter, Antonia. The family is from Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) and very poor. They live in poor conditions in a dugout house, and nearly starve to death their first winter. Jimmy teaches Antonia English and they become friends. At the end of the first winter that Jimmy and the Shimerdas are in Nebraska, Mr. Shimerda kills himself with a shotgun. The Shimerdas, who have always looked to Jimmy's grandparents for help, ask for their aid in surviving the winter and dealing with the funeral.
That's where we are. It's evocative and interesting, and I have some things to say about Cather's prose, but I am tired right now and won't do it justice. I promise more analysis tomorrow when I will, I hope, have it in me. This is kind of a pathetic post. The end.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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