My Antonia

 Willa Cather in her novel My Antonia offers her view of life during the pioneer time. In this story Willa writes in the perspective of Jim Burden, a boy who lost his parents and was sent to live with his grandparents, and you see how he views the events that happen but if the book was from Antonia point of view I think you would see how she survived those years before the meeting of her and Jim. It would tell of what she did in the times when we only knew what Jim was doing. Cather was very effective at narrating the story from a man's point of view because she knows how she wants him to portrayed. Jim sound like a man has wrote it with a hint of a famine touch. I think Jim changed the title to My Antonia because  no matter what happens between them or no matter how far the distance they have between them he will always see her as his Antonia. Willa Cather has captured the time period that she writes about with the ability to show the hardship that the settlers went through.

The Effects of Setting

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.

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The effects the land has on the characters is that they see the land as a person and how the appearance changes with the changes of the days. The land changes the characters by showing them that is like objects they have seen in many ways but is also very different in the way that it is the same. The changes show them what they are feeling about the way the day is happening.

The fields around my house have a effect on me by the fact that the tall grass and open spaces on a nice windy summer day is where is spent my childhood and to me the grass is like a ocean as every single piece of grass sways with the wind. Someday's the grass is a calm sea with the sun shining and the clouds giving off just enough shade that someone does not get sunburned and other day's the ocean is a mad frenzy going back and forth with such strength that the swishing hurts as it hits you.