Category: Book My Ntonia

When he is only ten years old, Jim Burden finds himself an orphaned boy in Virginia during the late 1880s. He is forced to move to Nebraska to live with his grandparents and boards a train to their farm with a worker named Jake. On the same train he encounters a bohemian family, the Shimerdas…

My Antonia by Willa Cather Based on the novel, Jim Burden’s observation of Antonia and even the way he looks at her and interacts with her, it seems clear that he loved Antonia. He did not pursue her, however. Jim spent his childhood in his grandfather’s house in the prairie and spent a lot of…