America. The book takes you through all the many hardships and wonders of her life.

The book helps you to see the adversity of being a strong woman of that time.

The book starts off with the heroine Alexandra with her father talking to his family on his death bed. Telling the boys that Alexandra is going to be the one in control of the family farmland. That everyone is suppose to respect that. With this great responsibility she took pride in it and wanted to make he father proud and brothers world a better place.

She had a vision that her brothers couldn’t not grasp or see. They never really understood her and her love of the land. In the end that was all the true real honest love that she had. She had never married. When the time came that she wanted to marry at an age of forty her brothers tried to talk her out of it. Telling her that it would be ridiculous for to marry at such an age. That she would be making a fool of herself, and that Carl was only after their land

and money. If she wanted to marry should she should have married while she was young. So they succeed when talking to Carl in not marrying and she was again alone with the land. The land that she loved and respected.

As I was reading the book, I noticed myself respecting her for not dwelling on the trivial emotion aspect of life. Of her not being so obsessed with love and happiness. With her being content on being one with what she had and with her land she acquired and loved. To know that the land will always be there for her, and when she had passed it will still be here. She took comfort in knowing all this. And this made her happy. I think we have lost that in this day and age. People of that time had it so much harder than we do now. So much more adversity to get through. There truly were the pioneers of the great America that we have now. To have the courage to go out into the unknown and to prosper that is something that a lot of people in this time do not know. Everything has been explored and settled now. We have many different machines now to help us. We are living longer, more a

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