My Opinion: Relationship Between Jim And Antonia

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In my Opinion, I believe that Jim is the one who learned more from the relationship between Antonia and himself. Jim was an orphaned young boy who came to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. He meet this young girl named Antonia, whom I feel forever changed his life. Jim and Antonia became really close throughout the book. Jim is the narrator of the book so you have insight to his inner most feelings and thoughts. As Jim quoted in the book "This was enough for Ántonia. She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a supercilious air with me again. I had killed a big snake, I was now a big fellow." This quote seems to show that Jim was proud of himself thinking he had impressed this young girl, Antonia.
Jim seems to be taken

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