Monday, December 19, 2011

My Antonia
Chunk 1: In Antonia point of view it would be alot of more details in everything she see or touch. she would go into everything like how it works. she see everything as a good think.

Chunk 2: Jim pretty much knows Antonia enough to tell how she thinks and works. Antonia and Jim were close friends and could of been more.

Chunk 3 : She just wasn't any person to Jim. Antonia wasn't just a girl she was more. Antonia was Jim best friends. So that's why Jim rename the book from Antonia to my Antonia.

Concluding Chunk In Antonia point of view it would be alot of more details in everything she see or touch. she would go into everything like how it works. she see everything as a good think. Jim pretty much knows Antonia enough to tell how she thinks and works. Antonia and Jim were close friends and could of been more. She just wasn't any person to Jim. Antonia wasn't just a girl she was more. Antonia was Jim best friends. So that's why Jim rename the book from Antonia to my Antonia. Jim and Antonia were great friends and that Jim could think like her and see how she think and works. Jim was a great friends to Antonia.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011


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.


Chunk #1:  Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel

  • For some it is a new life to start over but to another it could be death like Mr. Shimerdas. He didnt nothing in the new land he was living in but antonia saw everything she and family needed.
 
 
  • Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
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I like to walk around and seeing things. Makes me think and the air going into me feels so amazing like how a bird took off to fly for the first time.