Jim has come out to live with his grandparents because his parents died. His first impressions of Nebraska is that it is the end of the world. The prairie makes him feel like he is about to be swolled up by the earth.
Jim has been sent from Virginia by extended family due to the death of both of his parents. He travels west and is in awe over the vast emptiness of the land, he is out of sorts and feeling as though he has left all he has known or is connected to behind.
He had lost his parents within a year and his relatives in Viginia had sent him to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. He comments on how if he kept moving onwards the land would disappear and there would be nothing but sky and one would just float.
Ten-year-old Jim begins his story on a train from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to Black Hawk, Nebraska. He is traveling with Jake, a slightly older who worked on Jim’s father’s farm. Jim’s parents have recently died, and Jim and Jake are moving West to live with Jim’s grandparents. Jim is an orphan and has to travel to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Jim sees the Nebraska prairie for the first time and he wonders if the spirits of his parents will be able to find him here.
Jim has come out to live with his grandparents because his parents died. His first impressions of Nebraska is that it is the end of the world. The prairie makes him feel like he is about to be swolled up by the earth.
ReplyDeleteJim has been sent from Virginia by extended family due to the death of both of his parents. He travels west and is in awe over the vast emptiness of the land, he is out of sorts and feeling as though he has left all he has known or is connected to behind.
ReplyDeleteHe had lost his parents within a year and his relatives in Viginia had sent him to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. He comments on how if he kept moving onwards the land would disappear and there would be nothing but sky and one would just float.
ReplyDeleteTen-year-old Jim begins his story on a train from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to Black Hawk, Nebraska. He is traveling with Jake, a slightly older who worked on Jim’s father’s farm. Jim’s parents have recently died, and Jim and Jake are moving West to live with Jim’s grandparents. Jim is an orphan and has to travel to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Jim sees the Nebraska prairie for the first time and he wonders if the spirits of his parents will be able to find him here.
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