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.