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My Antonia study guide contains a biography of Willa Cather, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
At the age of ten, Jim Burden travels by cross-country train to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska frontier. He has just recently lost both his parents, and he is accompanied by a farmhand named Jake. On the same train is a Bohemian family that barely speaks English and that is going to the same place. When Jim arrives at the station, he is greeted by Otto Fuchs, an Austrian desperado cowboy.
Jim's grandparents are kindly people with simple religious beliefs and very generous natures. Jim enjoys the wide expanses of the frontier, with all its insects, prairie dogs, and vegetation. At this point in the year it is still summer. Soon the Burdens go to meet their Bohemian neighbors, the Shimerdas, who were forced to pay too much for…
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- My Antonia Summary
- About My Antonia
- Character List
- Summary and Analysis of Introduction
- Summary and Analysis of Book I, Chapters 1-10
- Summary and Analysis of Book I, Chapters 11-19
- Summary and Analysis of Book II, Chapters 1-9
- Summary and Analysis of Book II, Chapters 10-15
- Summary and Analysis of Book III
- Summary and Analysis of Book IV
- Summary and Analysis of Book V
- Biography of Willa Cather
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- Test Yourself! - Quiz 1
- Test Yourself! - Quiz 2
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