Jim Burden grew up in Virginia but was sent to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska after being orphaned. It is on the long train journey out west that he first encounters the Bohemian Shimerda family—including Ántonia, who will come to occupy a very special place in Jim's life. For the Shimerdas no less than Jim, life on the prairies of Nebraska will be a whole new experience. Though they come from a completely different part of the world and speak a different language, they share something in common with Jim in that they, too, are outsiders in this neck of the woods. It is that shared sense of being newcomers to a strange land that allows Jim to forge such a close and endurable connection to Ántonia.
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