... 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 ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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