key quotations - Jim Burden Flashcards
“I felt what would be…..
would be”
“There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but…..
the material out of which countries are made
“she was a ……
rich mine of life”
“she was satisfied with…..
her success, but not elated”
“Mr Shimerda had not been rich and selfish: he had……
only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer”
“This girl seemed to mean to us the…….
country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood”
“whatever we had missed, we possessed…..
together the precious, the incommunicable past”
“it looked like ashes - like something from which….
all the warmth and light had died out”
“for Antonia and for me, this….
had been the road to Destiny”
“you were likely to get……
diseases from foreigners”
“an interminable journey across the……
great midland plain of North America”
“west window which….
looked our over the prairie”
“the great land had never…..
looked to me so big and free”
“out there i…..
felt at home again”
“that forgotten plough had sunk back to…..
its own littleness somewhere on the prairie”
