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My Antonia Quotations - My Version Flashcards

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About foreigners

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‘These foreigners ain’t the same, you cant trust em to be fair’

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What Antonia always wanted to do

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‘I always wanted to go to school you know’

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What Antonia has to take

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‘A girl like me has got to take the good times when she can’

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What had Antonia become

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She was a battered woman now, not a lovely girl

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What did Jim worry about finding Antonia as?

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I did not want to find her aged and broken; I really dreaded it

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Title and it’s significance

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‘My Antonia’ – whilst could be a term of affection or men are possessive of women, know them as weak and in need of protection

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Differences between Jim and the immigrants

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Antonia - ‘Things will be easy for you, but they will be hard for us’

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What did Antonia have?

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‘Strong independent natures’

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What did Antonia like to be like?

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‘I not care that your grandmother say it makes me like a man. I like to be like a man’

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What had Antonia kept?

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‘Antonia had not lost the fire of life’

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How Antonia’s life would be different

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‘Things would have been very different with poor Antonia if her father had lived’

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What did Jim hate about Antonia

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Jim ‘hated’ her ‘superior tone’ and ‘resented her protecting manner’

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Jim’s ignorance to the struggle

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Jim said ‘buts it’s not like that’ - Jim dismisses what does not fit his norm and he does not properly understand the difficulties of women

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What does Jim think about the immigrants?

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‘People who don’t like this country ought to stay home’

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What does the narrator say about Jim?

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‘Jim is still able to lose himself in those big Western dreams’

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The Shimerda’s home

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‘It’s no better than a badger’s hole’

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Poverty and knowledge

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‘Nobody never knows what traits poverty might bring out in them’

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Mr Shimerdas depression

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‘My papa sad for old country’

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The Shimerda’s shame

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‘As if he were trying to hide from us’

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The Shimerdas in Bohemia

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Were not ‘beggars in the old country’

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What were conditions like?

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‘Conditions were bad enough certainly’

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What was Mr Shimerda not

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‘Had not been rich and selfish’

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What did Mr Shimerda ask Jim to do?

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‘Teach my Antonia’

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What did Mr Shimerda die from?

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‘It was homesickness that had killed Mr Shimerda’

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What did Lena do with her life in the country?

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Lena dismisses her life in the country with a ‘single remark, humorous or mildly cynicaly’

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What was home like for Lena?

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For Lena home was a place ‘where there were always too many children, a cross man, and work piling up around a sick woman’

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How does Lena describe her life as?

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‘No life for a girl’

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Why did Lena succeed?

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‘She kept a head for business and had got on in the world’

29
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What did Tiny do?

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‘Tiny Soderball was to lead the most adventurous life and to achieve the most solid worldly success’

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What did Tiny return with?

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‘Tiny returned with a considerable fortune’

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What interested Tiny?

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‘Nothing interested her much now but making money’

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How did Tiny feel about her success

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‘She was satisfied with her success but not elated’

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How did Mrs Shimerda manage?

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‘She managed poorly under new conditions: the conditions were bad enough certainly’

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How did Mrs Shimerda describe the house?

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‘House no good, house no good’

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What did the Shimerda do with their possessions?

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‘There never were such people as the Shimerdas for wanting to give away everything they had’

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What did Grandmother do?

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‘Always spoke in a loud tone to foreigners as if they were deaf’

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What was Jim’s home like?

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‘Atmosphere of comfort and security in my grandfather’s house’

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What did Kraijek do to the Shimerdas?

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‘Mysteriously separated from their money’

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What did Shimerdas think about the Krajiek?

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‘They hated Krajiek’

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Who was Wick Cutter?

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‘Merciless Black Hawk money lender’

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What was Wick Cutter

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‘A man of evil name’

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Hired girls compared to everyone else

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‘They were almost a race apart’

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What did the hired girls have?

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‘Positive carriage and freedom of movement’

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What were the hired girls considered as?

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‘Were considered a menace to social order’

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Hired girl’s upbringing

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‘Grown up in the first bitter hard times’

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What has the hired girls learned from?

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Learned so much ‘from life, from poverty, from their mothers’

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Hired girls beauty

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‘Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background’

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Hired girls likes

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‘They knew what they liked’

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Hired girls opportunities

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‘No alternative but to go into service’

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Russians

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‘Russians had such bad luck that people were afraid of them’

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Jake

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Jake was ‘so handicapped by illiteracy’

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Weather

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‘The snow and the bitter weather had disheartened them all’

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Land

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‘There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries were made’

A Level English Literature America (17 decks)

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