My Antonia

How would My Ántonia be different if it were told from Ántonia's perspective?
If the story was told from Antonia's perspective, i do not think that very much would change. The outcomes and hardships would be different because they would be more in the point of Antonia and not of Jim. However the overall theme would be the same. Both Jim and Antonia would still have to overcome all the hardships in their childhood.


How effective is Cather, a woman, at narrating a story from the point of view of a man? Does Jim sound like a man writing, or does the narrative sound like a woman pretending to be a man?
I think that Willa Cather does an excellent job at narrating My Antonia. Jim sounds like a man writing, even though he sounds calm, and very certain of his thoughts, he sounds very carefree.


Why do you think Jim changed the title from Antonia to My Antonia?

I think he changed it to show how important Antonia was/is in his life, that she was the main reason he became the person he ended up being.

The Effects of Setting

 

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


Chunk #1: 
The setting makes it difficult for the characters to survive, they have to work harder and struggle more Than they should. Also their relationships with each other makes it very difficult they are growing more apart and they have to do their own things now. Antonia is growing up she is going to parties and out with her friends, and Jim is still the same as he always was.
Chunk #2:

The setting that effects me is Winter, I have a very weak immune system, like a baby I get sick very easily. Usually during the winter I miss a lot of school because of being sick. This effects me because I get behind in school work and it is very hard to get caught up.

"Argument: Child Abuse"

Assertion Claim

• Child abuse could physically and mentally harm your child.

Evidence/Concrete detail

• Child abuse is not any way to punish a child or try to teach them a lesson, it will only make your child afraid of you, and inundated with everything.
• Commentary 1: In many cases children get hit, or brutally abused from something as little as breaking an item. Some parents leave their kids with babysitters and the babysitters will harm the children or punish them in ways the parents would not like for them to be punished.
• Commentary 2: Most runaways, adolescent prostitutes and teenage delinquent's report having been victims of a form of child abuse, and there has been reporters that violent criminals suffered abuse, either physical and/or sexual abuse.

Evidence/concrete Detail 2

• Child abuse can mentally and physically harm the child in many different ways that can leave them scarred for many years or the rest of their life.
• Children who suffer from child abuse often times see themselves as the way their abuser did if the abuser were to tell them "you are ugly and you will not amount to anything" the abused child would most likely believe that for a very long time.
• any form of abuse is destructive to a child's self-confidence and self-esteem. That can affect a child's emotional development, resulting in a sense of and inadequacy.

Opposing Claim

• What some might say is abuse others might say is just a punishment and is the only way to get their child to listen. They may say that everybody has different ways to punish their child, and that a few bruises wont hurt them.

My Rebuttal

•   I say it is not "punishment" if you are physically harming the child which will affect them their whole life, punishment is not hitting the child 10 to 20 times or kicking them or neglecting them, that is not punishment. Bruises may heal, but the mental damage will not. That will be with them for a very long time.

My Paragraph:

     Child abuse is not any way to punish a child or try to teach them a lesson, it will only make your child afraid of you, and frightened of everything.  In many cases children get hit, or brutally abused from something as little as breaking an item. Some parents leave their kids with babysitters and the babysitters will harm the children or punish them in ways the parents would not like for them to be punished. Most runaways, adolescent prostitutes and teenage delinquent's report having been victims of a form of child abuse, and there has been reported that violent criminals suffered abuse, either physical and/or sexual abuse Child abuse can mentally and physically harm the child in many different ways that can leave them scarred for many years or the rest of their life.Children who suffer from child abuse often times see themselves as the way their abuser did if the abuser were to tell them "you're ugly and you will not amount to anything" the abused child would most likely believe that for a very long time. Any form of abuse is destructive to a child's self-confidence and self-esteem. That can affect a child's emotional development, resulting in a sense of and inadequacy. What some might say is abuse others might say is just a punishment and is the only way to get their child to listen. They may say that everybody has different ways to punish their child, and that a few bruises wont hurt them. I say is not "punishment" if you are physically harming the child which will affect them their whole life, punishment is not hitting the child 10 to 20 times or kicking them or neglecting them, that is not punishment.Bruises may heal, but the mental damage will not, that will be with them for a very long time.

My Thinking: This paragraph is mostly deductive thinking because of the website i got this information from.

Source:
http://www.nccafv.org/child.htm