Part one of term paper
Life on the prairie and frontier was overwhelming. Men and women had to face challenges of survival with little or no outside assistance. Almost all of the decisions made on the frontier were made based on practicality and/or necessity. The film Heartland showed an unromantic and raw view of what frontier life was like, wrought with hunger ...

Part two of term paper
... but rather the bare necessities. One of the hardest losses portrayed in the film was that of the mother and the death of her son. The scene when she is hanging up the laundry outside and she breaks down and screams at the top of her lungs is a prime example of the pain and anguish that the frontier so often caused. In My Antonia the prairie is portrayed in a couple different ways. In the beginning of the novel Jim Burden felt, "blotted out", and "swallowed up", by the large size and vastness o ...