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Cather Essays and Term Papers
Analysis of Willa Cather's Paul’s Case: A Study In TemperamentWilla Cather - An author of the frontier with a disdain for the 'artistic temperament'
Willa Cather, as an author, might be assumed to show a great deal of compassion to a sensitive young adolescent who yearns for a better, more beautiful life of the arts rather than life hunched in an office ...
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Despair in Paul's Case By Will CatherPaul's Case by Will Cather tells the story of a young man lost in a sea of despair. He feels that he has been born into a world that does not fit him, the world of Cordelia Street. Paul's life on Cordelia Street, as described by Cather is very ordinary. He expresses his disdain for this life on ...
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Willa Cather's "O Pioneers"Until the late eighteenth century, any land located beyond the
Alleghany mountains was believed to be savage, uninhabited land. Thus, it
became known as the American frontier. According to Turner, the definition
of frontier means, "the meeting point between savagery and civilization and
a region ...
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Willa Sibert Cather And His WorksWilla Sibert Cather was an early twentieth century writer. She wrote
about the qualities of courage, sensitivity, and perseverance. Most often, her
novels and short stories took place in rural townships. She was born sometime
in 1873, in her grandmother's house. She was named after an Aunt ...
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My AntoniaThe Use of Parallels and Imagery in
, by Willa Cather, is a book tracing the story of a young man, Jim Burden, and his relationship with a young woman, Antonia Shimerda. Jim narrates the entire story in first person, relating accounts and memories of his childhood with Antonia. He traces his ...
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My Antonia 2The Use of Parallels and Imagery in My Antonia
My Antonia, by Willa Cather, is a book tracing the story of a young man, Jim Burden, and his relationship with a young woman, Antonia Shimerda. Jim narrates the entire story in first person, relating accounts and memories of his childhood with ...
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Critiscisms Of My AntoniaIn the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel, ...
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Critiscisms Of My AntoniaIn the past, critics have ad moralized and/or brutalized every writer they could get their pen on. This is seen from criticisms of Henry Adams to William Butler Yeats. These writers critique everything about the writer and his/her works. For instance many critics criticize Willa Cather's novel, ...
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My Antonia And LandsacpeThe landscape in “My Antonia”
"This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand. I was little and homesick and lonely and my mother was homesick and nobody paid any attention to us. So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first ...
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Relationship of the Past in My AntoniaRelationship of the Past in My Antonia
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again"; this quote by Willa Cather expresses the relationship that the past can have on humans. Some would argue that the past has no role in My Antonia, almost as if ...
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My Antonia: A ReviewMy Antonia has been called nostalgic and elegiac because it
celebrates the past. The inscription on the title page of My Antonia is a
quotation from Virgil: "Optima dies... prima fugit." This sentence, meaning
"the best days are first to flee", helps incorporate all the elements of
the novel I ...
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My AntoniaThe Inability to Provide for His Family, and Why it Drove Mr. Shimerda to Suicide
, by Willa Cather, is a novel about Jim Burden and his relationship and experiences growing up with Antonia Shimerda in Nebraska. Throughout the book Jim reflects on his memories of Nebraska and the Shimerda family, ...
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Penalty Of Death-Analysis"I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for. (49)" This thought is what is reflected in both "Sonny’s Blues" by James Baldwin and "Paul’s Case" by Willa Cather. Both Baldwin and Cather illustrate the problem of a young man growing ...
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Tools Used In The Writing Of Short StoriesThere is a fairly large group of authors that fall into the short
story genre. These authors use these short stories to show people things
that they might not have seen before, or maybe something they should look
at in more detail. These short stories can often show the countless sides
of human ...
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Similarities In "Rappaccini's Daughter" And "Paul's Case"The two short stories are similar because they both involve love.
The stories are and different because they deal with two unique aspects of
life. One of the stories was about a young gentleman by the name of
Giovanni and his love with the beautiful Beatrice. The other story was
about a young ...
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My Antonia"THERE was a curious social situation in black hawk. All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help their fathers struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the ...
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Cather In The Rye - LanguageThe passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic ...
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My Antonia 3My Antonia, by Willa Cather, is a novel of family devotion. It takes place in the small western town of Black Hawk, Nebraska. The main character of the story, 'Antonia Shimerda, is thrust as a young girl from her own native country into the American prairies. While still a child, she must deal ...
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My Antonia, by Willa Cather, is a novel of family devotion. It takes place in the small western town of Black Hawk, Nebraska. The main character of the story, 'Antonia Shimerda, is thrust as a young girl from her own native country into the American prairies. While still a child, she must deal with the ...
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My AntionaWilliam Cather showed a great amount of information about the "old wild west" and the expansion of the United States. In My Antonia, Jim Burden told a story of his childhood, the people in his life, and the struggles he and his surroundings faced during this time. At age ten, Jim Burden was sent ...
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