Part one of term paper
The 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 autumn,that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a ...

Part two of term paper
... born in Nebraska, the land and its people would probably not have played so important a role in her work. Her encounter with this new land was profound, even traumatic. Cather described the experience best through Jim Burden in My Antonia. “The vast sky, the endless plains, the enormous sun evoked a pantheistic and acquiescent response in the young boy There he felt the individual ego diminished and merged with something much greater.” (Internet #2) Like Jim Burden,Cather found ...