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... Sibert Cather was born on December 7, 1873. She grew up in Red Cloud, Nebraska. This town was in the middle of the prairie with the population consisting mainly of Scandinavian, Bohemian, and French immigrants. This environment impacted Cather's life as an artist and is one of the main sources of her vivid settings and depictions of characters in her books. In ... ...
... to believe that peace and order had vanished from the earth, or existed only in the world he had left so far behind" (71). Unfortunately the Shimerdas were the only Bohemian family for miles. Something as tragic as his suicide would surely bring at least some compassion from someone in the community towards his family. Mr. Shimerda had run out of ... ...
... half of the nineteenth century. The Nebraska prairie of the novel is an "ethnic soup", combining American born settlers with a wide range of European immigrants. These immigrants consist of the Bohemian Shimerdas, the Russians Peter and Pavel, and the Norwegian Lena(Scholes 5). In its most acceptable form, the earliest sign of immigration can be called assimilation. After reading the novel, the ... ...
... memories of her and her life is just as much a story for his life. "During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had both known long ago. More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of ... ...
