American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1428 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*My Ántonia* and *O Pioneers!*
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The idea
My Ántonia is narrated by a man remembering a Bohemian immigrant girl whose endurance outlasts everyone's expectations, and O Pioneers! follows a Swedish woman who makes a farm succeed where her brothers cannot. Both put a woman's strength at the centre of a frontier story.
In practice
Two women, and the land they hold.
Where people slip
The narrators remember rather than report.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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