Thematic Quotes Flashcards
Explain the meaning behind the epigraph:
“Optima dies…prima fugit.”
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“The best days… are the first to flee.”
Romanticised novel about the past
Georgics, poem by Virgil, virtues of farming life
Cather’s own love for ancient languages
MAN + THE NATURAL WORLD
How are the plains described in the introduction? (Intro)
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“Burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky”
MAN + THE NATURAL WORLD
What does Jim say about the red grass? (C2)
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“I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away”
MAN + THE NATURAL WORLD
What does Jim say about trees? (C4)
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“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons”
MAN + THE NATURAL WORLD
What does Jim say about fires? (C6)
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“The whole prairie was like the bush that burned with fire and was not consumed”
MAN + THE NATURAL WORLD
What does Jim say about the stars? (C8)
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“Though we had come from such different parts of the world, in both of us there was some dusky superstition that those shining groups have their influence upon what is and what is not to be”
VISIONS OF AMERICA
How does Jim feel when he arrives to the plains? (C1)
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“I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man’s jurisdiction”
VISIONS OF AMERICA
What does Jim say about sleep and death? (C2)
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“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep”
MORTALITY
What does Jim think it is like to die? (C2)
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“Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether is is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge”
FOREIGNESS + THE OTHER
What were the little brown shavings? (C10)
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“Those little brown shavings, which the Shimerdas had brought so far and treasured so jealously, were dried mushrooms”
FOREIGNESS + THE OTHER
What does Jim’s grandmother say to Mrs. Shimerda about Yulka at the funeral? (C16)
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“She is too little to understand what you want of her. Let her alone”
FOREIGNESS + THE OTHER
What does Jake say about foreigners to Jim? (C18)
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“These foreigners ain’t the same… It’s dirty to kick a feller. You heard how the women turned on you… They ain’t to be trusted”
FOREIGNESS + THE OTHER
What does Antonia say to Jim at the end of Book 1? (C19)
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“If I live here, like you, that is different. Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us”
MEMORY + THE PAST
What does Jim say about shadows? (C6)
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“And always two long black shadows flitted before us or followed after, dark spots on the ruddy grass”
MEMORY + THE PAST
What does Jim say about the cold? (C9)
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“I was convinced that man’s strongest antagonist is the cold”
