O Pioneers ! Sparknotes
In her novel O Pioneers!, Willa Cather, a well-known American author, depicts her experiences throughout her life living in the great state of Nebraska. O Pioneers! grew out of her familiarity with the communities of settlers, conversations with the immigrant farmers from different places, and the simple being of her living on the prairies herself. In 1913, after years of editing and writing short stories and poems, she wrote and became famous for her novel about the West, O Pioneers! At the time O Pioneers! was written, it “hailed” as a new kind of writing—particularly an American response to the American experience. In this novel, Willa Cather captured the essence of the late 19th century America, gaining knowledge from experience of living there to the settling West, to the power the land contained, and to the trials and travels of pioneer life.
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what basically happens is that it begins by opening on a winter day, in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, somewhere between 1883 and 1890. The narrator introduced four major characters in the story, but the main one being Alexandra. Alexandra's father, John Bergson, was dying. He tells his two eldest sons that he was leaving the whole farmland, and the preservation that he had achieved in getting since his immigration from Sweden, to his daughter. It became clear that Alexandra was stronger and bolder than all of her brothers. However, when drought and depression came three years later, Alexandra became determined which allowed her to continue steadfastly. Many families, one of them being Carl Linstrum's (her future husband) family, sell their farms and move away. But Alexandra believed in the promise of the gentle country, and so she convinced her brothers to re-mortgage their farm and buy more land. She also convinces them to try innovative farming
what basically happens is that it begins by opening on a winter day, in the town of Hanover, Nebraska, somewhere between 1883 and 1890. The narrator introduced four major characters in the story, but the main one being Alexandra. Alexandra's father, John Bergson, was dying. He tells his two eldest sons that he was leaving the whole farmland, and the preservation that he had achieved in getting since his immigration from Sweden, to his daughter. It became clear that Alexandra was stronger and bolder than all of her brothers. However, when drought and depression came three years later, Alexandra became determined which allowed her to continue steadfastly. Many families, one of them being Carl Linstrum's (her future husband) family, sell their farms and move away. But Alexandra believed in the promise of the gentle country, and so she convinced her brothers to re-mortgage their farm and buy more land. She also convinces them to try innovative farming