My Ántonia

Freud:Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious” by Antonia Peacocke, is an essay about her take on the comedic show Family Guy. Antonia Peacocke explains about her first attempt of watching Family Guy, then she goes into a detailed explanation of her hatred of Family Guy. Later, Antonia goes into a reminisce on her newly found love of the show. Peacocke ‘s essay inspired these two Narrative essay questions “ Have you had a similar experience as Antonia Peacocke when viewing Family Guy?”…

" It took a clear, meditative eye like my grandfather’s to foresee that they would enlarge and multiply until they would be, not the Shimerdas’ cornfields, or Mr. Bushy’s, but the world’s cornfields; that their yield would be one of the great economic facts, like the wheat crop of Russia, which underlie all the activities of men, in peace or war. " This quote is a very well known passage from the widely known novel My Antonia by Willia Cather. In this novel, we follow a boy named Jim Burden…

Ántonia uses imagery to describe this man by stating, “His toes stuck out of his shoes, and he hadn’t shaved for a long while, and his eyes was awful red and wild…” (Cather 108). This old, worn-down, disheveled image of this man serves a larger purpose than…

Benjamin says, however, that “The reader of a novel… is isolated, more so than any other reader… In this solitude of his, the reader of a novel seizes upon his material more jealously than anyone else” (Benjamin 88). In this quote, Benjamin is calling forward the idea of people not only reading a book by themselves, while storytelling would involve at least two people, but also stating that the way in which a reader reads is different than that of a person who listens to a story. Focusing on…

seen the letter. So i picked it up, it said to: antonia from: and the name was crossed out in sharpie. Mom was tucking in chuckie and michael. So i slipped the letter into my pocket and ran to my room. Then mom came into my room to say goodnight to me and I put the letter under my pillow, “ goodnight sweety, I love you.” she said to me “ love you too mom” I yelled, she shut the door and I Quickly opened the note. In pen the letter said “ dear antonia, this is your father i am sorry that i…

Which, when argued can lead to the conclusion that perhaps it is stories that are heard that can be held more jealously than a novel. Jim and Antonia, and the others present at this time, could have decided to never share this story thus locking it firmly within their own minds. Meanwhile, a novel, by nature, is written down for anyone to see and is intended to be shared with, hopefully, millions of readers. A novel’s open-ending or questions may be favored among one person while despised by…

Lewis terror, danger and pain are all themes which are demonstrated and delved into throughout the course of the novel. Burkes notion of terror as a device which clouds judgment and reasoning at moments applies in The Monk, ‘“ I sank upon my knees; I clasped my hands, and lifted them up to her for mercy, but had no power to articulate a syllable” (Lewis, 312). In this exert Agnes fears for her life, the life of her unborn child and spending the rest…

There are numerous amounts of ways to write a paper or essay and they are all different. In the book The Transition to College Writing, Hjortshoj suggests that making an outline is one of the most important steps in the writing process and it plays a big role in the organization of a paper. Hjorishoj believes that if an outline if not made, then the paper will not be as effective as it would be with an outline. Outlines help to keep the paper organized and help to make sure that the topic is…

well known, they all have interesting history behind their many bricks. The Ponte di Rialto Bridge in Venice is the oldest bridge that crosses the Grand Canal. (learnodo-newtonic) The original wooden bridge was designed by a Swiss Engineer named Antonia de Ponte. (James) The Grand Canal varies in width, and the Ponte di Rialto is built at the narrowest place. (learnodo-newtonic) Prior to the Accademia Bridge being built, the Ponte di Rialto was the only place you could cross the Grand…

In my own opinion I would believe Antonia would, but also would not agree with this. She is a very stubborn person who see’s that happiness is beauty in itself, while being a good thing, but I don’t think she would describe it the same way Jim does. She is much more stern than he is in the book, or at least, I believed her to be. While Jim is kind and a sort-of playful spirt, he likes to see the good in all things, and people. He knows their can be happiness is everyone, they just have to find…