Monday, February 18, 2019

Describing the Business of Farming in O Pioneers! by Willa Silbert Cath

Describing the Business of Farming in O Pioneers by Willa Silbert CatherWilla Sibert Cather was natural in Virginia, December 7, 1873. At the age of nine, Cathers family moved to Nebraska. Willa fell in love with the country, with the waste prairies of the Nebraska. In her life, Willa worked for different journals and magazines and received m all unearned degrees, even the Pulitzer Prize. Her literary life was extremely influenced by her childhood in the wild country. In her life story, I actually didnt find any trace of doing a line of descent relative to farming, or running a farm on her own. Therefore she doesnt seem to hold in practical last with business of farming. Maybe thats why she describes it in a general federal agency only, with surface any particulars.The Cathers novel O Pioneers gives us a realistic photograph of peoples life at the completion of the nineteenth century. The new incomers, who settled the inimical countries of Ameri tail end continent, had very unassailable times. It was necessary for them to do whatever they were qualified to, to earn some money or to gain something to eat. As we can see in Cathers novel, many people were farming. scarcely some of them were non farmers in their country of origin, they just kick the bucketed farming in the new home. take down though they knew nothing about it. Willa Cather describes a history of such people, a Norwegian immigrant family, the Bergsons. The beginnings in the new world were very tough for the Bergson family. And the item didnt seem to get better. They have met several misfortunes that have held their farming business back. One winter his cattle had perished in a blizzard. The next pass one of his plow horses broke its leg in a prairie-dog lying in wait and had to be shot. Another summer he disconnected his hogs from cholera, and a of import stallion died from a rattlesnake bite. Time and again his crops had failed. He had lost two children, boys, that came between Lou and Emil, and there had been the cost of sickness and deathThis is Cathers idea of what hindquarters Bergson had to fight against. Its clear, that the whole family felt discouraged and helpless when there was no success coming. They saw many people around them selling their area and giving the farming up. They were going to find their fortune somewhere else. after John Bergson died, his sons also wanted to give up and change the hard work on the infertile land for some... ...ittle joke. It pretended to be vile because nobody knew how to work it right and then, all at once, it worked itself. It woke up out of its sleep and stretched itself, and it was so big, so gamy, that we suddenly found we were rich, just from sitting still.I dont know much about farming at the end of the nineteenth century, but I heard something in the school and they have told nothing about becoming rich just from sitting still. This is the amative point of view of the problem, and thats the Willa Ca thers point of view.Actually, there has been some business arse the success. The fact, that Alexandra was buying more and more low-price land. She was very clever. She knew exactly what to do, to become rich and struggle no more. She could count the expenses and the profits several years ahead. But she did all this only because some spirit told her to, only because she felt something regnant coming out of the land. Did Willa Cather think this is the way that bussiness works? It seems to be her romanticist illusion. I dont think Alexandra had sufficient reasons to mortgage a farm and start a big business from nothing with all risks. But she do a bet and won. Lucky girl.

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