“There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. It is no surprise we encounter them first in motion on a train. Both have been wrenched from their origins, Antonia from her native Bohemia, Jim from his parents’ home in Virginia. Antonia is fourteen when we first see her Jim Burden ten. Willa Cather’s straightforward story of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant to Nebraska, parallels the change in the lives of the two principal characters with the transformation of the Great Plains.
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