Character Quotes Flashcards
(25 cards)
ANTONIA
What does Jim say about Antonia’s headstrong nature? (C4)
💭💬
“Antonia had opinions about everything, and she was soon able to make them known”
ANTONIA
What does Jim have to say about the way she speaks to him? (C7)
👍🏻🗣
“Much as I liked Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me”
ANTONIA
What does Jim say about how she has grown? (C17)
👧🏽👩🏽🦱
“She had come to us a child, and now she was a tall, strong young girl”
ANTONIA
What does Jim comment about her masculine behaviour? (C17)
🍽😴🙌🏽
“Antonia ate so noisily now, like a man, and she yawned often at the table and kept stretching her arms over her head, as if they ached”
ANTONIA
What does she say about Jim’s grandmother’s comments about her doing heavy farm work?
😎🧔🏽
“I not care that your grandmother say it makes me like a man”
JIM
How does the narrator from the introduction describe Jim? (Intro)
😘🤩
“Naturally romantic and ardent disposition”
JIM
What does the narrator say about Jim’s aspirations in the introduction? (Intro)
🚀🤠💭
“Jim is still able to lose himself in those big Western dreams”
JIM
What does he say about fate and belonging? (C1)
🌎☁️✏️🙏🏻
“Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be”
JIM
What does he say after killing his first snake? (C7)
🔪🐍🧔🏼
“I had killed a big snake - I was now a big fellow”
JIM
What does he say about drama on the plains? (C14)
🌪😁
“I looked forward to any new crisis with delight”
MR SHIMERDA
How does Jim describe him when he first sees him? (C3)
👤🔥☀️😵
“His face was ruggedly formed, but it looked like ashes - like something from which all the warmth and light had died out”
MR SHIMERDA
How does Jim describe his smile? (C6)
😁😢💭
“The old man’s smile… was so full of sadness, of pity for things, that I never afterward forgot it”
MR SHIMERDA
What did Mr. Shimerda reassure the Burdens? (C10)
🤲🏽🌎💰🖖🏽
“They were not beggars in the old country; he made good wages, and his family were respected there”
MR SHIMERDA
How does Jim describe Mr. Shimerda when he is close to death? (C12)
👴🏽😩💉
“His face had a look of weariness and pleasure, like that of sick people when they feel relief from pain”
MR SHIMERDA
What reasoning does Jim give for Mr. Shimerda’s suicide? (C14)
💸👹☹️☠️
“Mr. Shimerda had not been rich and selfish: he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer”
MRS SHIMERDA
How does Jim describe her physical appearance? (C3)
⚠️🔪👀
“Her face was alert and lively, with a sharp chin and shrewd little eyes”
MRS SHIMERDA
What does Jim say about her nature? (C13)
😏❌💰
“She was a conceited, boastful old thing, and even misfortune could not humble her”
MRS SHIMERDA
What comment does she make about Jim’s grandfather? (C17)
❌👼💦🍂
“He not Jesus… he not know about the wet and the dry”
MRS SHIMERDA
What is her reaction to Jake hitting Ambrosch? (C18)
🙌🏽⚡️
“Mrs. Shimerda threw her hands over her head and clutched as if she were going to pull down lightning”
MRS SHIMERDA
What is her reaction after Jim’s grandfather allows her to keep the cow? (C18)
⛓🏃🏽♀️✋🏻💋
“Mrs. Shimerda dropped the rope, ran after us, and, crouching down beside grandfather, she took his hand and kissed it”
OTTO FUCHS
How does Jim describe him? (C1)
🦖⏳
“He looked lively and ferocious… as if he had a history”
PETER AND PAVEL
What does Jim say about their terrible truth? (C8)
📜✈️💰🗽
“Wherever they went, the story followed them. It took them five years to save money enough to come to America”
AMBROSCH
What does Jim say about Antonia’s relationship with her brother? (C13)
👴🏽❤️👨🏽🦱
“Though Antonia loved her father more than she did anyone else, she stood in awe of her elder brother”
JIM’S GRANDMOTHER
What does Jim say about her talking to herself? (C15)
💬🙏🏻👂🏻
“Grandmother always talked, dear woman: to herself or to the Lord, if there was no one else to listen”
