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Moody Landscape - Paper

Moody Landscape

In the book, My Antonia (First Vintage Classics Edition, 1994), the landscape along with Jim's reactions to it helps us to feel all the emotions of the scene. His feelings of loneliness, sadness, awe and happiness are felt through his words and we can form a picture from the descriptions, adding to what we already know. He feels these emotions in the first few scenes. All because he wants a place to call home.
The feelings we get when Jim arrives are awe with hints if loneliness. He pulls into town and is being taken to his grandparent's house. He is riding in a wagon and since he is having trouble sleeping and tries to look at the land and sees nothing. This can be seen in the ...

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behind me... I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be."(Pg. 11-12)
We see that Jim is a state of awe. He does not see this place as land or a country, but the building blocks for such things. He thinks he is in the heavens, not on the planet. He feels like he is in his own universe. The landscape adds a sense of loneliness as well. He looks at the land and there is nothing he can hold onto so he will know where he is, no mountains or anything. The feelings of awe can also be read as loneliness. He is looking in wonder at this new land, but he feels so alone. He is in the middle of nowhere.
He also believes that the spirits of his parents will not be there for him. I'm sure the fact that his parents died upset Jim, but he also think that they will no longer be there for him since he has left. As far as Jim is concerned they are back at his old home, looking for him. He feels so alone and upset that he thinks that God will not be ...

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Added: 4/17/2005 03:58:16 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1025
Pages: 4

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