My Antonia and Landsacpe
Title: My Antonia and Landsacpe
Category: Literature / English
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My Antonia and Landsacpe
The landscape in “My Antonia”
"This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand. I was little and homesick and lonely and my mother was homesick and nobody paid any attention to us. So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn,that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to
shake."
-Willa Cather (
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a tired driver passed the wooden cross, I am sure, without wishing well to the sleeper. (pg77)
When we think of the landscape, Shimerdas becomes a part of it, a human being implanted in the soil forever. It is, then, through the passing of generations that we come to mark our time in a place. The remains of those generations remind us of our past;humble monuments like Shimerdas' grave remind us to honor it.
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