Willa Cather in her novel My Antonia (yes, a signal phrase) offers her view of life during the pioneer time.
How would My Ántonia be different if it were told from Ántonia's perspective?
We would know another side of Antonia of how she's feeling, thinking and everything.
How effective is Cather, a woman, at narrating a story from the point of view of a man? Does Jim sound like a man writing, or does the narrative sound like a woman pretending to be a man?
It sounds like a man writing.
Why do you think Jim changed the title from Antonia to My Antonia?
Because he was in love with Antonia in the novel.
Based on this, I reccommand this novel to anyone.
Monday, December 19, 2011
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.
The effects with the characters with the land is they see it as of what they're feeling.
The city of Batesville is a setting that has an effect on me. At night, when everything has lighted up in town, it looks amazingly beautiful. The Christmas lights that they lit up at the park makes it go great with everything else. During the winter when its snows, there's a pretty blanket that covers all of the city, making as if the trees are sparkly. In the summer time, boats are out at the sand bar. Trucks are parked beside each other and people are out in the river enjoying the coolness of the water, splashing them in the face or just going swimming.
"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.
The effects with the characters with the land is they see it as of what they're feeling.
The city of Batesville is a setting that has an effect on me. At night, when everything has lighted up in town, it looks amazingly beautiful. The Christmas lights that they lit up at the park makes it go great with everything else. During the winter when its snows, there's a pretty blanket that covers all of the city, making as if the trees are sparkly. In the summer time, boats are out at the sand bar. Trucks are parked beside each other and people are out in the river enjoying the coolness of the water, splashing them in the face or just going swimming.
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