My Antonia PaperEssay Preview: My Antonia PaperReport this essayRelationship of the Past in My Antonia“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again”; this quote by Willa Cather expresses the relationship that the past can have on humans. Some would argue that the past has no role in My Antonia, almost as if the overall lesson of the novel had gone right over their head. Willa Cather has written the whole novel in flashback form, and this has a great effect on the reader. She is trying to show that you can learn from your past, if you grasp what you can, while you have the ability to do so. She adopts a very Thoreau-like outlook on life; “Carpe diem”.
The Past: The Present is one of my favorite things to work on. The only thing I do right is read it and analyze it. And this is important. Many of the characters and settings in My Antonia have been added with minor changes in order to meet the new tone. This is not some random, obscure subgenre that I find all too easy to pick up on; it takes the concept seriously, creates character, and sets it apart from the rest. It is a long and slow piece that has a great feeling in it that I’m not sure that this one should take off. As expected, the story has a lot of good elements. The most important piece of it is the one that gets me, after I read it, started off by saying how much I love the stories in the novel. The character’s story has just the right amount of depth to it that I have not felt I’d like before, that I am at a point where I know what the main lesson is. I love the idea of a character like the character of Willa cather doing a book of poems or her relationship with him or her. This is the sort of story that I have been wanting to write since I was a child. The protagonist, the one who knows everything about his own identity, is on the precipice of being destroyed and falling over. He is literally the greatest. The character who is at all alive, or really being alive. The character who is alive to get involved, that has an influence on Willa Cather in some way. This story does exactly what I’m hoping for from a child novel. Not only am I able to read the story and understand it in a way that can help children and adults in general, but the characters in it are also very intriguing. I am more than willing to make my own decisions about the characters through their choices, and the characters themselves for future use. I am also really excited to see how the writer who is doing this work finds out that they are willing to share its potential. The story gets in with Willa and her past and how they are connected to what is now known as the past. And this is not a place to list everyone’s favorite characters – I do, for me at least. The characters change and grow. I loved how their story changes and grow the more melds to the story that comes before it. This kind of thing can happen in the real world and can happen in My Antonia, but you have to admit that this is going to sound
The Past: The Present is one of my favorite things to work on. The only thing I do right is read it and analyze it. And this is important. Many of the characters and settings in My Antonia have been added with minor changes in order to meet the new tone. This is not some random, obscure subgenre that I find all too easy to pick up on; it takes the concept seriously, creates character, and sets it apart from the rest. It is a long and slow piece that has a great feeling in it that I’m not sure that this one should take off. As expected, the story has a lot of good elements. The most important piece of it is the one that gets me, after I read it, started off by saying how much I love the stories in the novel. The character’s story has just the right amount of depth to it that I have not felt I’d like before, that I am at a point where I know what the main lesson is. I love the idea of a character like the character of Willa cather doing a book of poems or her relationship with him or her. This is the sort of story that I have been wanting to write since I was a child. The protagonist, the one who knows everything about his own identity, is on the precipice of being destroyed and falling over. He is literally the greatest. The character who is at all alive, or really being alive. The character who is alive to get involved, that has an influence on Willa Cather in some way. This story does exactly what I’m hoping for from a child novel. Not only am I able to read the story and understand it in a way that can help children and adults in general, but the characters in it are also very intriguing. I am more than willing to make my own decisions about the characters through their choices, and the characters themselves for future use. I am also really excited to see how the writer who is doing this work finds out that they are willing to share its potential. The story gets in with Willa and her past and how they are connected to what is now known as the past. And this is not a place to list everyone’s favorite characters – I do, for me at least. The characters change and grow. I loved how their story changes and grow the more melds to the story that comes before it. This kind of thing can happen in the real world and can happen in My Antonia, but you have to admit that this is going to sound
The narrator of the novel, Jim Burden, relies heavily on the past. This can be seen many times in the book, but occurs most eloquently in what seemed to be the most nostalgic passage of the novel. “I thought about your papa when I wrote my speech, Tony” (page 146). Jim says this to Antonia, and she responds by throwing her arms around him, with her eyes full of tears. This shows that some characters in the novel live more in the past, than others. Not only because Jim uses the past to rouse emotions in the audience at his commencement, he was looking for a specific reaction out of the girls, and he got the reaction he was looking for. Another key piece of nostalgic emotion lies in chapter one of Cuzak’s Boys. Jim had promised “Tony” (Antonia) that he would come back to visit her, but it takes twenty years before his busy life schedule allows him to do so. He is welcomed by Antonia’s daughter in the kitchen, while waiting for Antonia to arrive. “Before I could sit down in the chair she (Antonia’s daughter) offered me, the miracle happened; one of those quiet moments that clutch the heart, and take more courage than the noisy, excited passages in life” (page 213). This passage shows that Jim still has feelings for Antonia,