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By Willa Cather
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Description Written in the style of a memoir, My ntonia chronicles Jim Burdens friendship with the daughter of a Czech immigrant family. Recently orphaned, he moves west to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Riding the same train is the Shimerda family, who are also on their way to settle in the area. The Shimerdas have a difficult life as pioneers living in a sod house, working the fields, and running out of food in the winter. Jim soon becomes smitten with ntonia, the eldest daughter, as they grow up and explore the landscape around them together. Through his eyes, we see both how she shapes the land around her and is shaped by the rigors of poverty.Similarly to Jim, Willa Cather spent her early years in Nebraska but most of her adult life in Eastern cities. She...

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80279 words80,279 words
269 pages269 pages
Lexile 990L Lexile 990L
Published 2019Published 2019

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