My Ántonia ALL Flashcards

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“I could…”

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“I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me as our shadows used to”

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“I did…”

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“I did not want to find her aged and broken”

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“Some memories…”

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“Some memories are realities and better than anything that can ever happen to one again”

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“Whatever we …”

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“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”

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“Antonia had not…”

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“Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”

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“I’d have liked…”

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“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.

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“If there were …”

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“If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry”

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“I prefer to…”

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“I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.”

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“More than any other…”

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“More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.”

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“Optima…”

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“Optima dies … prima fugit. The best days are the first to flee.”

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“He sighed and …”

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“he sighed and told us that if he had stayed at home in Russia perhaps by this time he would have had a pretty daughter of his own to cook and keep house for him.”

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“A girl…”

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“A girl like me has got to take her good times when she can.”

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“People who…”

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“People who don’t like this country ought to stay at home”

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“There never were…”

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“There never were such people as the Shimerdas for wanting to give away everything they had.”

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“But Mr Shimerda…”

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“But Mr Shimerda had not been rich and selfish: he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer.”

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“Ambrosch put …”

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“Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought not to do”

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“She liked me better…”

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“She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a supercilious air with me again. I had killed a big snake – I was now a big fellow.”

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“He wanted us to know …”

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“He wanted us to know that they were not beggars in the old country; he made good wages, and his family were respected there. “

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James Miller

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“My Antonia does not portray, in any meaningful sense the fulfilment of the American Dream”

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Kelly McCormick

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“Each immigrant’s story represents a footprint in the journey of the American Dream”

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Yukman

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“Mr Shimerda dies a social death before his actual death”

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William J Stuckey

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“Jim is attracted to Antonia’s warmth and vitality, but at the same time repelled by grosser aspects of her behaviour”

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Lambert

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“Cather succeeded because she could imagine women achieving identity and defining their own purpose”

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James E Miller

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“Jim is in search of the American past, his past, in an attempt to determine what went wrong, and perhaps as well what was right, with the dream”

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Churchwell

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“My Ántonia is one of the earliest novels that is sympathetic towards an unwed mother”

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Martin

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“[Mr Shimerda’s suicide] is a testimony to the grim reality of the struggle imposed by frontier conditions”