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My Antonia Quotes Chapters And Themes Flashcards

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Chapter one- immigration’There seemed to..

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be nothing to see’

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‘There was nothing…

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but land’

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‘Trees were so rare in that…

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country and they had to make such a hard fight to grow’

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Virginia- ‘old..

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country’

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Nebraska- ‘new..

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land’

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Chapter two- Jim’s foreignness to the prairie and life- The Shimerdas wooden house. ‘The red of…

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the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine stains’

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‘The edge of the world…

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which could not be far away’

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Grandma-‘ she was so often…

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thinking of things far away’

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‘I was something that lay under the sun…

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and felt it, like the pumpkins and I did not want to be anything more’

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Chapter 3- Jim and Antonia’s life differ- family disconnections ‘House..

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no good, house no good’

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‘I could hardly wait..

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to see what lay beyond that cornfield’

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Antonia- ‘The little girl…

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was pretty’

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Mr shimerda- ‘ his eyes…

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were melancholy’

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Chapter 4- ‘ The new country…

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lay open before me’

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‘Antonia had..

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opinions about everything’

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Mrs Shimerda- ‘ was a good housewife in her own country..

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but she managed poorly under new conditions’

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Chapter 5- ‘ My papa find..

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friends up north with Russian mans’

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Pavel and Peter- ‘ hospitable..

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and jolly’

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Chapter 6- Symbol of the grasshopper ‘ The whole prairie …

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was like a bush that burned with fire and was not consumed’

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Chapter 7- initiation into manhood ‘ I had..

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killed a big snake’

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‘ Much as I liked Antonia…

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I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me’

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Chapter 8- Pavel and Peter- ‘ the merciless..

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black hawk money lender’

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‘Misfortune seemed to settle like…

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an evil bird on the roof of a log house’

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Chapter 9- Harsh winters and resilience ‘ Our lives centres around..

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the warmth and food’

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Chapter 10-‘ The air in the cave…
was shifting and it was very dark too’
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Mr Shimerda- ‘ he wanted us to know that…
they were not beggars in the old country’
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‘ The snow and bitter…
weather had disheartened them all’
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Mrs Shimerda- ‘ The poor women..
broke down’
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Chapter 11-‘ country..
Christmas’
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Chapter 12- Burdens are Protestant and shimerdas are catholic this bothers Jim’s grandpa ‘ The prayers…
of all good people are good’- mr Shimerda
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Chapter 13-Jim thinks Mrs Shimerda is selfish.. ‘ America big country..
much money, much land for my boys much husband for my girl’
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‘People who don’t like..
this country ought to stay home’
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Chapter 14- Mr Shimerda suicide- ‘ mr Shimerda is dead…
and his family are in great distress’
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‘ i knew it was homesickness..
that had killed Mr Shimerda’
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Catholicism- suicide is a sin- ‘ he pulled the trigger…
with his big toe’
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Chapter 15- Anton says it’s important to have a priest to bless the body, Jim’s grandpa argues that Christ is the only saviour a soul needs- Anton- ‘ full..
of life and handsome’
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‘ frank..
manly faith’
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Chapter 16- The funeral- ‘ The red grass had been ploughed..
mr Shimerdas grave was still there’
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Chapter 17- Jim asks Antonia to go to school with her, she says she has to work now ‘like..
mans’
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Grandpa- ‘ she will help…
some fellow get ahead in the world’
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Chapter 18- Jake goes to Shimerdas to receive a horse collar Ambrosch borrowed- it was damaged they fight Jake advises Jim not to trust..
‘ foreigners’
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Chapter 19- Jim and Antonia spend more time together and reconcile their friendship ‘ Things will be…
easy for you but they will be hard for us’
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‘ I wish my papa live..
to see the summer, I wish no winter ever came again’
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Book 2 Chapter 1- The end of Jim’s childhood, Jim’s grandparents move to town they buy ‘ the first house one passed…
driving in from the farm’
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Otto and jake leave for the..
‘ wild west’
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Chapter 2- The Harlings hire Antonia as Mrs burden convinces her them too. ‘ They had been..
farming people
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Antonia- ‘She was a battered women now…
not a lovely girl’
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‘She still had something…
that fires the imagination’
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‘ When boys and girls are…
growing up life can’t stand still’
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Chapter 3- Antonia arrives at the Harlings and Jim is jealous by Charley, he is also intimidated by Mr Harling- ‘ like a man who…
felt that he had power’
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Chapter 4- Lena Lingard - ‘ new..
women’
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‘ I don’t want to marry…
Nick or Amy other man’
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Chapter 5- Lena- ‘ She was thrilled..
to live in town’
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‘ she cried a little..
and told him that she was homesick sometimes’
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Chapter 6- ‘ winter..
comes down savagely’
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Antonia- story about the tramp- ‘ wonders why he would kill himself..
in summer when everything is good’
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The Harlings- ‘ In each of them…
there was a relish of life’
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Chalter 7- The dance- Antonia and Lena ‘ debut of grown…
women in town’
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‘ Jim questions Ambrosch..
for news about Antonia’
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‘ It was a world of its own..
that room, and they were it’s inhabitants’
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Chapter 8- dancing pavilion- ‘ a place where the girls could wear..
their new dresses and where they could laugh aloud without being reproached’
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Chapter 9- ‘ The country girls were..
considered a menace to the social order’
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‘ all foreigners were ignorant..
people who couldn’t speak English’
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‘ The bohemian girls could not get positions as teachers…
because they had no opportunity to learn the language’
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Chapter 10- Antonia quits at the Harlings- A man tries to give her a kiss and mr Harling thinks ‘ have a reputation…
for being free and easy’
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Chapter 12- Jim tries to kiss Antonia ‘ I’m awful fond of him too…
but not in that way’
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Jim to Lena- ‘I can kiss..
you as much as I like’
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Antonia to jim- ‘I’m awful..
proud of you’
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Chapter 13- Jim Meets Frances Harling, his grandmother gets upset about the dance so he stops going, he graduates and knows him and Antonia are not going to work out- Frances- ‘ The trouble with you Jim..
is that you’re romantic’
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Antonia hears Jim’s graduation speech- ‘ pulled on..
his heartstrings’
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Chapter 14- Jim and Antonia reminisce and sit by the river- Antonia- ‘ I ain’t never forgot..
my own country’
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‘ a plough had been left standing in the field…
the sun was sinking just behind it, heroic in size’
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Chapter 15- Cutter thinks Jim is Antonia as he has a desire to cheat on his wife with her and Jim hits him and Antonia quits- ‘ I feel as if he is up..
to some trips again’
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Jim- ‘ I can’t help being glad..
that life can’t be all that, all the time’
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Book 3- Chapter 1- Jim can’t escape the past - uni is a ‘mental..
awakening’
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‘Naked land and…
the figures scattered upon it’
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Chapter 2-Lena speaks to Jim- about Lena‘ She should have got..
on so well in the world’
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Chapter 4-Jim decides to leave for Harvard he also defends Lena’s independence- ‘ My Lincoln…
chapter closed abruptly’
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‘ I seemed to have…
forgotten all of my reasonable explanations’
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Book 4- Chapter 1- Jim to Antonia- ‘ You really are..
a part of me’
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Jim about Antonia- ‘ I was bitterly…
disappointed in her’
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Chapter 2- ‘If she hadn’t thrown…
herself away on such a cheap sort of fellow’
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Chapter 3- Antonia- ‘I’m a…
country girl’
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‘The whole face of…
the country was changing’
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Chapter 4- Jim and Antonia- Antonia ‘worked..
down’
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‘Where all the..
ground is friendly’
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Book 5- Chapter 1- Jim was afraid to see Antonia afraid to find her’ aged..
and broken’
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‘Battered but..
not dishevelled’
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Trees planted- ‘ as if..
they were people’
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Chapter 2- Cuzak- ‘Antonia’s love..
and warmth helped me build a life’
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Chapter 3- ‘ the..
incommunicable past’
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‘This had been…
the road of destiny’

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