During one of their many adventures, Jim kills a snake. Together, Jim and Antonia, who is a few years older than Jim, explore the prairie - the animals, the river, and the hunting-grounds. Despite the Shimerdas' hard conditions, Antonia finds much comfort and happiness in the land. Shimerda, Antonia's mother, who had made the family immigrate to America so that Ambrosch, the Shimerdas' eldest son, would have the chance to become a wealthy farmer. Antonia's father takes his family's poverty hard, and he is very homesick for his native land. Shimerda, Jim feels his sadness and exhaustion. The Shimerdas have a hard life on the farm they are very poor and live in a shabby dugout, but Antonia remains dedicated and determined to improve the conditions of her life and her family's.įrom the first time Jim meets Mr. Shimerda, who Jim finds to be intelligent and genteel, asks Jim to teach Antonia English. Antonia Shimerda, the elder daughter, becomes his good friend and pupil. He is not the only one to discover and explore the country early on, he meets the immigrant Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, who have come to Nebraska at the same time as Jim's arrival. An orphaned ten-year-old Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents on their farm in the country, just outside the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska.
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