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    Willa Cather’s, O Pioneers, Marie proves this belief on many different occasions. Marie’s liveliness, which is arguably her greatest quality, acts in turn as her greatest weakness when it becomes a contributing factor to her death. Marie, a beautiful, vivacious Bohemian girl, migrates to the prairie from the city at a young age. She is used to getting attention from everyone everywhere she goes. Her personality, normal in Europe and even the city, is foreign to the plain pioneers on the prairie.

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    The passage O Pioneers talks about this town in the Great Plains and a little country boy that can not help his cat and is afraid to ask someone for help. The author of the passage, Willa Cather, uses phrases and words to describe how somber the mood of the passage is. Carter also overuse words to emphasis how somber the mood of the passage is.Willa Cather’s choice of words and phrases about the setting contributes to the somber mood of the passage by describing the houses in the open plains, the

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    land. Though something goes wrong and one of them doesn't get that content life on their own land. The only difference between the two and their connection with their land is race; one is black and the other is white. First, there's Alexandra in O Pioneers. Alexandra and her family were able to

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    Cather has three philosophies in the book “O’ Pioneers” that include Naturalism, Romanticism, and Realism. In the book I believe Cather appeared to seem more for Naturalism because in Alexandra Bergson, the main character in the book who took over her father’s land when he died and the land had became a big part in the book. Although, the book has a lot of naturalistic views because Alexandra Bergson takes over her father's land because he thought she appeared wiser than her brothers. In the book

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    Cather portraying herself in the characters and the flipped gender roles Considering I am one of the only two males in the Intro to Women’s Literature class, I felt moved to touch on Willa Cather’s flipping of the gender roles in the book O Pioneers! I will be using my own opinion in this essay, along with textual evidence to back up my claims. I will also be establishing connections between Cather’s portrayals of herself within the themes and characters in the book. As we know, Willa Cather was

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    the reader to know what inspired the events happening throughout the novel. After reading the novel O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, I began to search for ideas leading me deeper into the meaning of the novel as a whole. O Pioneers! is a novel in which several of the key concepts and character qualities can be better understood by learning more about the life of Willa Cather. Aspects of O Pioneers! that involve the life of Willa Cather include where the novel is taking place, the description of Alexandra’s

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    The Hawkeye is the newspaper for the University of Louisiana in Monroe (ULM). It is written by a few students at the University of Louisiana in Monroe and is written mostly about Monroe and ULM, but also has information in it about other cities and states. Every week the students write a paper and publish it, the paper has stories from football games to the presidential election. Writing the Hawkeye is for fun, but the students that do it also get paid. They have a few students who work unpaid, so

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    The attribute speculations, pioneers with appeal are probably going to impact representatives fundamentally to take after a wanted strategy. For the situation, the mentor is exceptionally alluring and the group does not appear to experience significant issues in taking after the group wants. Disregarding this, under the possibility speculations of administration, it is all things considered clear that the pioneer needs to couple charming initiative with situational pioneers. “The adherents were going

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    Progress and optimism of a person is how someone or something may advance over time. In O Pioneers! the author, Willa Cather, uses characterization, literary devices, and setting to explore the theme of progress and optimism. This theme is present throughout the entire book but is mainly present in Alexandra Bergson and her younger brother, Emil Bergson. Progress and optimism is present in the two of them because they begin the novel with losing their father. They eventually lose the other two brothers

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    In the short novella by author Willa Cather entitled “O Pioneers!” readers get a glimpse into country life for immigrants moving west in the late 19th century and early 20th century America. It explores many themes such as immigration issues, labor issues, and gender roles. During this time women in particular had few rights politically and were not in very high standing socially as a “Victorian Style” of gender roles was the social norm. Characters in the novel for the most part did adhere to these

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