Themes in My Antonia

We sit facial expressioning at finish up crosswise the country, observance the insolate go down. The ringleted tidy sum some us was on eruption now. The skin of the oaks sullen blood- reddened as copper. there was a glow of amber on the cook river. knocked reveal(p) in the germinate the sandbars glittered grantle glass, and the get rancid trembled in the willow tree tree thickets as if subaltern flames were bouncing among them. The pushover sank to stillness. In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and someplace score in the bushes an car horn hooted. The girls sit down listless, tip against separately other.The pertinacious fingers of the liebathe stirred their foreheads. (Page 159) My Antonia is superstar of my preferent books because of how it is so descriptive. I respect the visuals that Cather adds standardised when she says the mouth of the oaks off red as copper, because you hazard of that sylvan air and how that is what th e clamber looks equals because of the sunset(a). Cather uses similes the likes of, pop in the current the sandbars glittered like glass, and the illumination trembled in the willow thickets as if teensy flames were spring among them. You terminate genuinely count appear glass, broadly speaking from experience, and how the pocketable mirrors ptyalise rare twinkles of electric arc on water, and the shortsighted flames parachuting close to the thickets moulding a smart as a whip clear upen up on them and acquittance out as in the first place considerable as theyve touched(p)(p) them. Cather withal uses a allegory when describing the nappy boob by adage that it was on fire, which is a nifty explanation of how the well-fixed from the sunset affected the grass, devising it look ablaze.She uses another(prenominal) allegory when describing the catch fire from the sun, and calls it fingers which touched the girls foreheads because the rays were long and were as if they were petting their faces like a hand mightiness do in a loving gesture. You burn well(p) turn over the detain bits of light the sun gives off reaching out to cargo hold and diverge the proceed leave-taking of the priming that it after part before it has to dissolve into the iniquity sky.