AO1: My Antonia Flashcards
Which quote shows Jim reminiscing about him and Antonia as children?
“I could almost believe that a boy and a girl ran along beside me as our shadows used to”
How does the preservation of Antonia remain in Jim’s mind?
As long as she exists in his mind, she can remain under that romanticized sheen of memory.
“I did not want to find her aged and broken”
Which quote shows how Jim prefers to live passively in the past than actively in the present?
“Some memories are realities and better than anything that can ever happen to one again”
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
Which quote shows Antonia’s continued resolution?
“Antonia had not lost the fire of life”
What quote demonstrates Jim’s love for Antonia?
“I’d have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister – anything a woman can be to a man”
Where does Jim compare the hired girls to the poetry of Virgil?
“If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry”
How does Lena Lingard show her desire for freedom individually WITHOUT A HUSBAND?
“I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody”
how does Antonia embody their childhood in the prarie?
“More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood”
What is the first line of the book?
“Optima dies… prima fruit. The best days are the first to flee”
- How do P + P show regret for leaving Russia?
“He sighed and told us that if he stayed at home in Russia perhaps aby this time he would have had a pretty daughter of his own to cook and keep his house for him”
How won’t Ántonia be controlled or stop attending the dances?
“A girl like me has got to take her good times when she can”
What racist comment is made about immigrants by Jim?
“People who don’t like this country ought to stay at home”
How are the Shimerdas shown to be excessively grateful?
“There never were such people as the Shimerdas for wanting to give away everything they had”
How is Mr. Shimerdas’s death described?
“But Mr Shimerda had not been rich and selfish: he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer’
How is Jims sexism shown when Antonia is assigned ‘masculine’ chores/
“Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought not to do”
