O Pioneers!

The book O Pioneers! written by Willa Cather, originally published by Hesperus Press in 1913. O Pioneers! has five parts, each part having their own chapter. It tells the struggles and successes of a Swedish-American farming family that moves to Hanover, Nebraska in the turn of the 20th century. In the five parts of the book, many things happen to the Bergson’s, the Swedish-American family that immigrated to Hanover, Nebraska in the 1800’s. One wintry January day, Alexandra Bergson and her five…

O Pioneers and Ethan Frome are two classic, exciting novels. Even though the two plots of these stories aren’t much alike, the have similarities so often, it’s eerie. From the cold, harsh winter that the stories take place in, to the fact that they were written 2 years apart (1911 - 1913). These stories were not meant to relate at all, but the more you read, the more similarities you may find throughout both books. I find it funny that the similarities are not more recognised in the reading…

The story “O! Pioneers” written by Willa Cather uses three types of writing views. She uses the Romantic, Realistic, and Naturalistic views to write the story. The story is about a girl named Alexandra and how she deals with loss, failure, and loneliness. Cather mostly uses the naturalistic view to explain the struggles that Alexandra goes through, but she also uses the romantic and realistic views to explain it. Cather uses the Realistic view to show us Alexandra realization of what happened.…

Willa Cather entwines the historical dimension of the Homestead Act throughout her novel O Pioneers. Alexandra Bergson and her family must overcome many obstacles to accomplish successful farming in the Middle West. Cather uses the main character, Alexandra, to portray the great feat taken in order to continually learn how to cultivate the rugged land and make it into flourishing farmland. Alexandra followed her father’s wishes in taking care of the farm— a task that was uncertain to be…

O Pioneers! is the first book of the renowned prairie trilogy written by Willa Cather, a Pulitzer Prize winning author. This book was published in 1913 and tells the fictional story of the life of a Swedish women named Alexandra Bergson. The story begins when Alexandra was a young woman as her father’s health was declining. The doctor sadly told the family that there was nothing he could do for their father and that he was to die soon. Before Mr. Bergson’s death he gathered his four children…

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers encapsulates America’s appreciation for “wild” nature over that of the serene, peaceful scenes described by their pastoral European precursors. The reader can see the manifestation of this appreciation through the American people’s enthusiastic reception…

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about people but instead about the antagonistic outcomes coming about because of the interchange of dangerous pioneers, helpless devotees, and favorable situations. We look at theoretical issues concerning damaging administration and its association with different develops to give a point of view on the subject. At that point we plot the poisonous triangle: the qualities of dangerous pioneers; the intentions of supporters; and the large scale natural setting that encourages the rise of damaging…

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering...” -Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, page 137 This quote relates very well to the book O Pioneers! for, in the book we read about how the U.S. was for the Bergson family, how they sometimes changed for the better and for the worst, we can also see this in the way that new immigrants were treated. One theme of the book relates most to U.S. history and that is how the book compares how the foreign…

Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! was published in the midst of the industrial revolution. She definitely attempted to make a radical statement by establishing the main character in her book as a strong female, with her book coming out during a time when gender roles were constantly being challenged, but there are quite a few hits and misses that Cather made if she tried to make Alexandra out to be the quintessential pioneer. To be a pioneer means to be the first to discover or explore a certain area,…