My Antonia Quotations Flashcards
B1 Chapter 1- last line
“Here, I felt, what would be would be”
B1 Chapter 2 - Jim’s views on death
“Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge”
B1 Chapter 2- Landscape = freedom of childhood
“There was nothing but rough, shaggy, red grass, most of it is as tall as I”
B1 Chapter 3- Mr Shimerda’s wish for Antonia, last line of chapter 3
“Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Án-tonia!”
B1 Chapter 4- Antonia trad. gender roles
“Antonia loved to help grandmother in the kitchen and to learn about cooking and housekeeping”
B1 Chapter 4- Shimerdas stuck with Krajiek
“They hated Krajiek, but […] they did not know how to get rid of him”
B1 Chapter 5- Jim’s initial views of the Russian immigrants
“I was a little afraid of him”
B1 Chapter 5- Antonia introducing Jim to immigrant culture
“I had never heard of cooking cucumbers, but Ántonia assured me they were very good”
B1 Chapter 6- Antonia’s nickname from Jim
“Tony”
B1 Chapter 6- Mr Shimerda giving Jim gun
“My tatinek say when you are big boy, he give you his gun […] [Mr Shimerda’s father] give my papa fine gun, and my papa give you.”
B1 Chapter 6- The Shimerdas giving things away
“There were never such people as the Shimerdas for wanting to give away everything they had”
B1 Chapter 7- first line, Jim’s dislike for Antonia subverting gender roles
“I hated the superior tone that she sometimes took with me”
B1Chapter 7- Jim kills snake
“I ran up and drove at his head with my spade”
“I never know you was so brave, Jim, […] you is just like big mans” - Antonia
B1 Chapter 7- Antonia stops acting superior to Jim
“She never took a supercilious air with me again”
B1 Chapter 8- Wick Cutter’s reputation
“Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk money-lender”
