Moody Landscape
In the book, My Antonia (First Vintage Classics Edition, 1994), the landscape along with Jim's reactions to it helps us to feel all the emotions of the scene. His feelings of loneliness, sadness, awe and happiness are felt through his words and we can form a picture from the descriptions, adding to what we already know. He feels these emotions in the first few scenes. All because he wants a place to call home. The feelings we get when Jim arrives are awe with hints if loneliness. He pulls into town and is being taken to his grandparent's house. He is riding in a wagon and since he is having trouble sleeping and tries to look at the land and sees nothing. This can be seen in the lines: "There was nothing but land: not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made...I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction. I had never before looked up and at the sky when there was not a familiar mountain ridge against it...I did not believe that my father and mother were watching me from up there; they would still be looking for me at the sheepfold down by the creek, ... I had left their spirits behind me... I did
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Classics Edition, Black Hawk, Jim Jim, red grass, Moody Landscape, hold onto, loneliness sadness awe, feel emotions, sadness awe happiness, sadness awe, family friends, loneliness sadness, grandparent's house, awe happiness, call home, black hawk,
Approximate Word count = 1065
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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