My Antonia :: essays research papers

1. contend the significant of every(prenominal)(prenominal) of the following citations. Provide several examples that support each quote.     A. "The country girls were considered a menace to the social order. Their beauty shone out alike boldly against a conventional background. But anxious mothers need construct felt no harm. They mistook the mettle of their sons. The respect for respectability was stronger than any impulse in dimmed Hawk Youth."          The above quotation is telling slightly how the elderly people of Black Hawk did not trust the junior girls. This brought active when the young girls Antonia, Tiny, Lena, etc. and Jim would constantly go to the parties held in Black Hawk. Jims grandmother especially did not approve of Jim sack to parties. Although, Jim continued to go, barely eventually felt that he should obey his grandmother. Antonia, whom was working for the Harlings, was forced t o conduct between going to parties or continue working for them. She chose to continue going to parties, but then started to work for the Cutters.     B. "This was the avenue over which Antonia and I came on that night when we got off the train at Black Hawk...For Antonia and for me, this had been the road of great deal had taken us to those early accidents of fortune which predetermined for us all that we can ever be. Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, and incommunicable past."          The above quotation is showing the importance of Jimmy and Antonias friendship. The road brought them together since they dual-lane a significant amount of memories at the road. Jimmy remembers those special quantify he had with Antonia when he approaches the road. It is also a symbol for friendship, and the possibility of it universe rekindled and/or never forgotten. 2. How is the following and accurate depiction of Antonia? How are the enumerated traits revealed end-to-end the story?"More than any other person remembered, this girl seemed to close to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood." (Jimmy)     This is an accurate description of Antonia because she lived in some(prenominal) conditions where she had to quickly adapt. When she moved to Nebraska, she was not used to living in her unequal surroundings. Most of the time she had a fairly dear attitude about this, following her fathers footsteps, although her mother did not have a very good attitude.