My Antonia My Antonia is one of the most beautifully, and romantically written novel I have ever read. The book is a reflection of Jim Burden’s happy childhood growing up in the open country of Nebraska. Although Jim grew up, and became a successful legal counsel in New York, and married, I got the impression from the introduction that his life as an adult felt incomplete, thus unhappy. Giving him the motive to go …showed first 75 words of 1081 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1081 total…is through Antonia that Jim found his hopes, dreams, and strength. In a land of hopes and dreams, and failed hopes and dreams, Jim’s hopes and dreams come true when he goes back to Nebraska in the end of the book, and reunites with Antonia. He knows of the harsh life she’s led, and to see her so happy gave to him a sense of fulfillment, and reminder that all is still possible.