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2,025	121_chapter_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	John, James and Isabella have made plans to visit Clifton again. They come to collect Catherine, but she has already made plans to take a walk with Henry and Eleanor. The trio put tremendous pressure on Catherine to go, but she remains steadfast in her refusal. This puts a strain on the friendship between Isabella and ...	[ "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday have now passed in review before the reader; the events of each day, its hopes and fears, mortifications and pleasures, have been separately stated, and the pangs of Sunday only now remain to be described, and close the week. The Clifton scheme had been de...
2,026	121_chapter_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The morning arrives with no fresh invitations from James, Isabella, and John. Catherine goes on her walk with Henry and Eleanor. Catherine, timid from her encounter with John, mentions novels, but suggests that Henry might not read them since they are not "clever enough" for gentlemen like him. Henry responds that thos...	[ "The next morning was fair, and Catherine almost expected another attack\nfrom the assembled party. With Mr. Allen to support her, she felt no\ndread of the event: but she would gladly be spared a contest, where\nvictory itself was painful, and was heartily rejoiced therefore at\nneither seeing nor hearing anything...
2,027	121_chapter_xv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Catherine receives a note from Isabella, bidding her to visit as soon as possible. Catherine goes to Isabella's and discovers that her friend is engaged to James. Isabella praises James, and expresses her worries over his parents' consent to the marriage. Catherine assures her their consent is certain. Isabella express...	[ "Early the next day, a note from Isabella, speaking peace and tenderness\nin every line, and entreating the immediate presence of her friend on\na matter of the utmost importance, hastened Catherine, in the happiest\nstate of confidence and curiosity, to Edgar's Buildings. The two\nyoungest Miss Thorpes were by the...
2,029	121_chapter_xvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Henry asks the Morlands for Catherine's hand in marriage. They are surprised, but they quickly give their consent to the marriage. However, in order to be proper, they refuse to allow the marriage until the General has given his own consent. Henry and Catherine also want the General's consent, but they fear that it wil...	[ "Catherine's expectations of pleasure from her visit in Milsom Street\nwere so very high that disappointment was inevitable; and accordingly,\nthough she was most politely received by General Tilney, and kindly\nwelcomed by his daughter, though Henry was at home, and no one else of\nthe party, she found, on her ret...
2,045	19810_book_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim first hears of Antonia on a journey across America by train. He is ten years old and his mother and father have recently died, so now he's moving from his home in Virginia out to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. He is traveling with a boy named Jake Marpole who is going to be a farmhand for his grandparents....	[ "I FIRST heard of Antonia(1) on what seemed to me an interminable journey\nacross the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then;\nI had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia\nrelatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I\ntraveled in the care...
2,046	19810_book_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim doesn't remember arriving at his grandfather's farm, and when he wakes up he's in bed in a little room in his grandparent's house. His grandmother is looking at him and crying because Jim looks so much like his father . She gives him clean clothes and brings him to the kitchen to have a bath behind the stove. Jim g...	[ "I DO not remember our arrival at my grandfather's farm sometime before\ndaybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses.\nWhen I awoke, it was afternoon. I was lying in a little room, scarcely\nlarger than the bed that held me, and the window-shade at my head was\nflapping softly in a warm wi...
2,047	19810_book_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Sunday morning Otto drives Jim and his grandparents over to the new Bohemian neighbors. They bring food with them. On the way, Jim looks at the red grass of the prairie and the sunflowers. We learn that the Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, bought the farm from a fellow countryman named Peter Krajiek and that they got...	[ "ON Sunday morning Otto Fuchs was to drive us over to make the acquaintance\nof our new Bohemian neighbors. We were taking them some provisions, as\nthey had come to live on a wild place where there was no garden or\nchicken-house, and very little broken land. Fuchs brought up a sack of\npotatoes and a piece of cur...
2,048	19810_book_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	That afternoon Jim takes a ride on his pony for the first time. Otto helps him. Once he's learned how to tide, he starts going to the post-office twice a week so that the men no longer have to make the trip. He also carries messages for the family to save Otto the time. Narrator-Jim reflects fondly on his first autumn ...	[ "ON the afternoon of that same Sunday I took my first long ride on my pony,\nunder Otto's direction. After that Dude and I went twice a week to the\npost-office, six miles east of us, and I saved the men a good deal of time\nby riding on errands to our neighbors. When we had to borrow anything, or\nto send about wo...
2,049	19810_book_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Although the Shimerdas have it tough, the two girls never complain. They like to frolic about with Jim. One day Antonia comes into Jim's kitchen and excitedly announces that her father found friends, some Russian men who live nearby. She's happy that her father has finally laughed and smiled in this new country. Jim kn...	[ "WE knew that things were hard for our Bohemian neighbors, but the two\ngirls were light-hearted and never complained. They were always ready to\nforget their troubles at home, and to run away with me over the prairie,\nscaring rabbits or starting up flocks of quail.", "I remember Antonia's excitement when she ca...
2,050	19810_book_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One afternoon Jim is giving Antonia a reading lesson outside on the grass. By now she can speak English well. They are sitting by the badger hole and Antonia is talking about how the badger is highly esteemed where she's from, and how the men hunt him using a special kind of dog. Jim looks at all the rabbits running ar...	[ "ONE afternoon we were having our reading lesson on the warm, grassy bank\nwhere the badger lived. It was a day of amber sunlight, but there was a\nshiver of coming winter in the air. I had seen ice on the little\nhorse-pond that morning, and as we went through the garden we found the\ntall asparagus, with its red ...
2,051	19810_book_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim likes Antonia, but he doesn't like her superior attitude. She is older than he and so she treats him like a child sometimes. But then one adventure changes that. One day Jim rides over to the Shimerdas and finds Antonia getting ready to go to Russian Peter's house to borrow a spade for Ambrosch. He ends up taking h...	[ "MUCH as I liked Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took\nwith me. She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of\nthe world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her\nprotecting manner. Before the autumn was over she began to treat me more\nlike an equal and to def...
2,052	19810_book_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As fall comes to an end the Russians start having some trouble. Peter tells Mr. Shimerda that he had to mortgage all his stuff to pay a bill to Wick Cutter, a terrible moneylender who lives in town who took advantage of Peter on interest rates. Then Pavel hurt himself working and is now laid up in bed. Everyone says th...	[ "WHILE the autumn color was growing pale on the grass and cornfields,\nthings went badly with our friends the Russians. Peter told his troubles\nto Mr. Shimerda: he was unable to meet a note which fell due on the first\nof November; had to pay an exorbitant bonus on renewing it, and to give a\nmortgage on his pigs ...
2,053	19810_book_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The first snow comes in December. The pond freezes and the red grass pales. Jim looks at a circle in the grass where the Indians used to ride around and torture prisoners, according to Otto. But his grandfather says that they probably just trained their horses there. Fuchs makes Jim a sleigh that he can use to ride aro...	[ "THE first snowfall came early in December. I remember how the world looked\nfrom our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning:\nthe low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out\ninto ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff\nwillow bushes. Big w...
2,054	19810_book_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Burdens don't hear anything from the Shimerdas for several weeks after the sleigh ride. One night, Otto tells them that he saw Mr. Shimerda out hunting, wearing his rabbit-skin hat and collar. He says that the family only has one overcoat between them and they take turns wearing it. The winter has been very tough o...	[ "FOR several weeks after my sleigh-ride, we heard nothing from the\nShimerdas. My sore throat kept me indoors, and grandmother had a cold\nwhich made the housework heavy for her. When Sunday came she was glad to\nhave a day of rest. One night at supper Fuchs told us he had seen Mr.\nShimerda out hunting.", "\"He'...
2,055	19810_book_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jake is assigned to do the Christmas shopping for the family, but it starts snowing on December 21st and there is no way to get to town. The men can't even do much work outside so they stay in and grease their boots. Grandfather realizes that no one will be able to go into town to buy presents, and refuses to let Jake ...	[ "DURING the week before Christmas, Jake was the most important person of\nour household, for he was to go to town and do all our Christmas shopping.\nBut on the 21st of December, the snow began to fall. The flakes came down\nso thickly that from the sitting-room windows I could not see beyond the\nwindmill--its fra...
2,056	19810_book_1,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Christmas morning Jim wakes up to see the men coming in from their morning chores. They all shout "Merry Christmas" to each other. Grandfather says particularly long prayers that morning and reads aloud from the Bible. He thanks God for Christmas. Narrator-Jim remarks that Grandfather had a special talent for saying...	[ "ON Christmas morning, when I got down to the kitchen, the men were just\ncoming in from their morning chores--the horses and pigs always had their\nbreakfast before we did. Jake and Otto shouted \"Merry Christmas\"! to me,\nand winked at each other when they saw the waffle-irons on the stove. Grandfather came down...
2,057	19810_book_1,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the next week the land finally thaws out, and everything is slushy by New Year's. Jim starts doing his regular chores again. One morning Antonia and Mrs. Shimerda come over; Antonia's mother has never been in the Burdens' house before. She runs around looking at everything and ends up taking one of their pots on the...	[ "THE week following Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year's Day all\nthe world about us was a broth of gray slush, and the guttered slope\nbetween the windmill and the barn was running black water. The soft black\nearth stood out in patches along the roadsides. I resumed all my chores,\ncarried in the cobs a...
2,058	19810_book_1,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the 22nd Jim wakes up. He hears voices and knows that something has just happened. Jake and Otto are in the kitchen looking tired, and Grandmother keeps praying to God. Finally, Grandfather explains that Mr. Shimerda is dead, and that Otto and Jake have been at the Shimerdas half the night. He shows him that Ambrosc...	[ "ON the morning of the 22d I wakened with a start. Before I opened my eyes,\nI seemed to know that something had happened. I heard excited voices in\nthe kitchen--grandmother's was so shrill that I knew she must be almost\nbeside herself. I looked forward to any new crisis with delight. What\ncould it be, I wondere...
2,059	19810_book_1,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Otto gets back from town the next day, exhausted from his trip. He reports that the coroner is coming later that day. He brought with him a young Bohemian eager to help his countrymen, named Anton Jelinek. He immediately thanks Grandmother for helping the Shimerdas. Jim admires Anton. The young man goes to school in to...	[ "OTTO FUCHS got back from Black Hawk at noon the next day. He reported that\nthe coroner would reach the Shimerdas' sometime that afternoon, but the\nmissionary priest was at the other end of his parish, a hundred miles\naway, and the trains were not running. Fuchs had got a few hours' sleep at\nthe livery barn in ...
2,060	19810_book_1,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the fifth day after his suicide Mr. Shimerda is finally buried. On Friday Anton helps Ambrosch to dig the grave. On Saturday Jake and Anton have to pry the frozen body off the ground. Grandmother and Jim go to visit the Shimerdas; the women are there alone. Antonia is very sad and clings to Jim. Mrs. Shimerda sits b...	[ "MR. SHIMERDA lay dead in the barn four days, and on the fifth they buried\nhim. All day Friday Jelinek was off with Ambrosch digging the grave,\nchopping out the frozen earth with old axes. On Saturday we breakfasted\nbefore daylight and got into the wagon with the coffin. Jake and Jelinek\nwent ahead on horseback...
2,061	19810_book_1,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Spring arrives. It is different than the springs that Jim are used to in Virginia, because there aren't a lot of blooming flowers and budding trees. Everyone burns the grass so as to get rid of the old stuff before the new grass grows. The Shimerda family now has a log house which was built in March with help from the ...	[ "WHEN spring came, after that hard winter, one could not get enough of the\nnimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter\nwas over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used to watch\nin Virginia, no budding woods or blooming gardens. There was only--spring\nitself; the t...
2,062	19810_book_1,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim sees even less of the Shimerdas after he starts going to school in town. He rides into town every day and has made some friends among his classmates, which he considers revenge against Antonia. He doesn't like that Ambrosch is influencing Antonia more and more. One event caused a rift between the Shimerdas and the ...	[ "AFTER I began to go to the country school, I saw less of the Bohemians. We\nwere sixteen pupils at the sod schoolhouse, and we all came on horseback\nand brought our dinner. My schoolmates were none of them very interesting,\nbut I somehow felt that by making comrades of them I was getting even with\nAntonia for h...
2,063	19810_book_1,_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's July and very hot. Antonia and Jim are in the garden to pick vegetables for dinner. She says she likes to work outside and be like a man. She makes Jim feel her muscles. All the Burdens are happy to have Antonia back working for them. One night during a storm Antonia and Jim climb up on the roof together to watch ...	[ "JULY came on with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the plains\nof Kansas and Nebraska the best corn country in the world. It seemed as if\nwe could hear the corn growing in the night; under the stars one caught a\nfaint crackling in the dewy, heavy-odored cornfields where the feathered\nstalks stood so ...
2,064	19810_book_2,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Three years after Jim came to Nebraska, Grandfather decides to move them into the town of Black Hawk. Jim is thirteen and his grandparents are getting too old for farm work. They rent the farm out to the Widow Steavens and her brother, and they buy a house in town. They plan to move in March. Otto decides to go back ou...	[ "I HAD been living with my grandfather for nearly three years when he\ndecided to move to Black Hawk. He and grandmother were getting old for the\nheavy work of a farm, and as I was now thirteen they thought I ought to be\ngoing to school. Accordingly our homestead was rented to \"that good woman,\nthe Widow Steave...
2,065	19810_book_2,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Grandmother really likes the Harlings as neighbors. They used to be farming people, too, and are Norwegian. Mr. Harling is a merchant and one of the most enterprising men in the county. He's away a lot on business. Mrs. Harling is strong and sturdy and energetic. She has bright eyes. They have lots of children, three o...	[ "GRANDMOTHER often said that if she had to live in town, she thanked God\nshe lived next the Harlings. They had been farming people, like ourselves,\nand their place was like a little farm, with a big barn and a garden, and\nan orchard and grazing lots,--even a windmill. The Harlings were\nNorwegians, and Mrs. Harl...
2,066	19810_book_2,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Antonia comes to town she is excited to see Jim. She suggests that Grandmother will like her better once she learns to live in town. Jim enjoys having Antonia around again. Mrs. Harlings sees that Antonia stops work a lot to play with the children. She learns more English rapidly. Jim gets jealous because Antonia ...	[ "ON Saturday Ambrosch drove up to the back gate, and Antonia jumped down\nfrom the wagon and ran into our kitchen just as she used to do. She was\nwearing shoes and stockings, and was breathless and excited. She gave me a\nplayful shake by the shoulders. \"You ain't forget about me, Jim?\"", "Grandmother kissed h...
2,067	19810_book_2,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The kids all tease Antonia about how much she likes Charley. They are in the process of making popcorn balls at the Harlings' when the door rings. It is a pretty, dressed-up girl named Lena Lingard. Jim almost doesn't recognize her, because she was a farm girl too at one point. Lena explains that now she's come to town...	[ "\"I won't have none of your weevily wheat, and I won't have none of your\n barley,\n But I'll take a measure of fine white flour, to make a cake for\n Charley.\"", "WE were singing rhymes to tease Antonia while she was beating up one of\nCharley's favorite cakes in her big mixing-bowl....
2,068	19810_book_2,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now that Lena is in town, Jim sees her a lot down at the stores. He often walks her home and she talks with him about what's going on in town. The other immigrant girl named Tiny Soderball works at the hotel in town, where all the commercial travelers stay. On Saturday nights there's usually music and singing there, an...	[ "AFTER Lena came to Black Hawk I often met her downtown, where she would be\nmatching sewing silk or buying \"findings\" for Mrs. Thomas. If I happened\nto walk home with her, she told me all about the dresses she was helping\nto make, or about what she saw and heard when she was with Tiny Soderball\nat the hotel o...
2,069	19810_book_2,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The winter is always tough on a small town on the prairie. Everything starts to look ugly. Jim has a hard time even getting to school in the morning. He feels as though the winter is a punishment for their having enjoyed summer so much. Sometimes Jim loiters around after school, and then it's dark by the time he goes h...	[ "WINTER comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind\nthat sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens\nthat hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw\ncloser together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green\ntree-tops, now stare you in t...
2,070	19810_book_2,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim thinks that winter lasts too long in town, and that it's worse to go through winter there than it was back on the farm. He often goes with the Harlings to the river to ice skate and make bonfires on the shore. By March, though, he is tired of the weather. So he is grateful when a famous N**** piano player named Bli...	[ "WINTER lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and\nshabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and\nmen's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.\nBut in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and\npinched, frozen down to th...
2,071	19810_book_2,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When spring comes, everyone is happy. Jim and Tony help Mrs. Harling take care of her garden, and the kids play outside. Summer is coming, which narrator-Jim says will change everything. When boys and girls are supposed to grow up, he writes, nothing can stop them. Their parents often don't remember this. In June Jim s...	[ "THE Harling children and I were never happier, never felt more contented\nand secure, than in the weeks of spring which broke that long winter. We\nwere out all day in the thin sunshine, helping Mrs. Harling and Tony break\nthe ground and plant the garden, dig around the orchard trees, tie up\nvines and clip the h...
2,072	19810_book_2,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim explains the social situation in Black Hawk. The men who live in town are attracted to the country girls. The country girls grew up with hard lives, like Antonia, and they aren't formally educated. But Jim thinks they are smarter and more interesting than those who are more privileged. Physically they are strong an...	[ "THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men felt\nthe attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town\nto earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle\nout of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family\nto go to scho...
2,073	19810_book_2,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Until the dances began, Antonia wasn't considered one of the more attractive hired girls. She was just a girl who worked for and lived with the Harlings. But once the dances start, she begins hanging out with Tiny and Lena a lot. Also, she is a great dancer. The boys start to talk about her the same way they talk about...	[ "IT was at the Vannis' tent that Antonia was discovered. Hitherto she had\nbeen looked upon more as a ward of the Harlings than as one of the \"hired\ngirls.\" She had lived in their house and yard and garden; her thoughts\nnever seemed to stray outside that little kingdom. But after the tent came\nto town she bega...
2,074	19810_book_2,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Wick Cutter is the moneylender we've already heard about. He's a bad guy. His first name is Wycliffe and he is Protestant. He comes from Iowa and speaks a bit of Swedish. Cutter gambles a lot and is a bad loser. He always tells people how to act morally and says not to drink very hard liquor or smoke cigars. Cutter lik...	[ "WICK CUTTER was the money-lender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter. When\na farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling\nor the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.", "Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious\nbringing-up. He contributed r...
2,075	19810_book_2,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Once Antonia leaves the Harlings, she becomes even more interested in partying. She always makes clothes with Lena's help, copying the fancy dresses of older, wealthy women in town. This makes these rich women upset. She also starts wearing gloves and high heels, which attract attention. Jim is in high school now and a...	[ "AFTER Antonia went to live with the Cutters, she seemed to care about\nnothing but picnics and parties and having a good time. When she was not\ngoing to a dance, she sewed until midnight. Her new clothes were the\nsubject of caustic comment. Under Lena's direction she copied Mrs.\nGardener's new party dress and M...
2,076	19810_book_2,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One afternoon Jim finds his grandmother crying. Finally she admits that she knows that he's been sneaking out to the Firemen's dances. Jim tries to tell her that there's nothing wrong with those dances and that he likes spending time with the country girls. But she argues that it isn't right for Jim to deceive his gran...	[ "I NOTICED one afternoon that grandmother had been crying. Her feet seemed\nto drag as she moved about the house, and I got up from the table where I\nwas studying and went to her, asking if she did n't feel well, and if I\ncould n't help her with her work.", "\"No, thank you, Jim. I'm troubled, but I guess I'm w...
2,077	19810_book_2,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day Jim starts studying for college right away. That summer he learns trigonometry and Virgil. He memorizes long passages from the Aeneid. Sometimes he goes over to listen to Mrs. Harling play the piano. She likes having a boy around since her son Charley isn't at home anymore. One day in July Jim takes a brea...	[ "THE day after Commencement I moved my books and desk upstairs, to an empty\nroom where I should be undisturbed, and I fell to studying in earnest. I\nworked off a year's trigonometry that summer, and began Virgil alone.\nMorning after morning I used to pace up and down my sunny little room,\nlooking off at the dis...
2,078	19810_book_2,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's late August. The Cutters are going to Omaha for a few days. After they leave, Antonia comes over to see the Burdens. She tells them a story. Before Wick departed, he gave her all the valuables in the house in a basket and told her to keep them under her bed. He makes her promise that she won't leave the house or l...	[ "LATE in August the Cutters went to Omaha for a few days, leaving Antonia\nin charge of the house. Since the scandal about the Swedish girl, Wick\nCutter could never get his wife to stir out of Black Hawk without him.", "The day after the Cutters left, Antonia came over to see us. Grandmother\nnoticed that she se...
2,079	19810_book_3,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim goes off to college in Lincoln, Nebraska. He gets a tutor he likes named Gaston Cleric, who is the head of the Latin department. For his first summer vacation Jim chooses to stay in Lincoln and get ahead on his studies again rather than go home. His tutor stays around, too, so the two of them spend a lot of time to...	[ "AT the University I had the good fortune to come immediately under the\ninfluence of a brilliant and inspiring young scholar. Gaston Cleric had\narrived in Lincoln only a few weeks earlier than I, to begin his work as\nhead of the Latin Department. He came West at the suggestion of his\nphysicians, his health havi...
2,080	19810_book_3,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's March of Jim's sophomore year. The snow has been thawing and Jim is sitting with his window open in his room after supper. He's feeling lethargic. Jim looks at the blue sky outside his window. He sees the evening star. Jim closes his window and lights his candle. He props open a book, the Georgics, to begin his ho...	[ "ONE March evening in my Sophomore year I was sitting alone in my room\nafter supper. There had been a warm thaw all day, with mushy yards and\nlittle streams of dark water gurgling cheerfully into the streets out of\nold snow-banks. My window was open, and the earthy wind blowing through\nmade me indolent. On the ...
2,081	19810_book_3,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Jim goes to visit Lena he has to wait in the parlor. He's surprised that Lena is so successful because she isn't domineering and business-like. But she does have a great talent for making clothes and following fashion, though she never finishes anything on time and she always goes over budget. Jim thinks she is go...	[ "HOW well I remember the stiff little parlor where I used to wait for Lena:\nthe hard horsehair furniture, bought at some auction sale, the long\nmirror, the fashion-plates on the wall. If I sat down even for a moment I\nwas sure to find threads and bits of colored silk clinging to my clothes\nafter I went away. Le...
2,082	19810_book_4,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Two years later Jim graduates from Harvard and is ready to start law school there. He comes home for the summer vacation. The night he gets back some of the Harlings come over to see him. Afterwards he walks them home and Frances she tells him about Antonia. Jim already knows some of the story because his grandmother w...	[ "TWO years after I left Lincoln I completed my academic course at Harvard.\nBefore I entered the Law School I went home for the summer vacation. On\nthe night of my arrival Mrs. Harling and Frances and Sally came over to\ngreet me. Everything seemed just as it used to be. My grandparents looked\nvery little older. ...
2,083	19810_book_4,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Back to the summer before law school. Jim is in the photographer's store in town one day and sees a picture of a baby. The photographer tells him it is Tony's baby. She is proud of it even though it was born out of wedlock. Jim decides he has to see Antonia again. He likes her so much and wishes she hadn't thrown herse...	[ "SOON after I got home that summer I persuaded my grandparents to have\ntheir photographs taken, and one morning I went into the photographer's\nshop to arrange for sittings. While I was waiting for him to come out of\nhis developing-room, I walked about trying to recognize the likenesses on\nhis walls: girls in Co...
2,084	19810_book_4,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In August Jim goes out to see the Widow Steavens. He looks at the landscape as he goes. The grass is replaced with crops and there are many more houses than there used to be. The Widow tells Jim to have supper with them and then she'll tell him the story and he can stay overnight. The Widow tells the following story: A...	[ "ON the first or second day of August I got a horse and cart and set out for the high country, to visit the Widow Steavens. The wheat harvest was over, and here and there along the horizon I could see black puffs of smoke from the steam thrashing-machines. The old pasture land was now being broken up into wheatfiel...
2,085	19810_book_4,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next afternoon he goes over to the Shimerdas'. He sees the baby, but Antonia is out. He goes out to the fields to find her. She's working with a pitchfork. Antonia looks thin but still strong. Jim notes that she's only 24 but that a lot has happened to her already. The two of them sit down by a fence to talk to eac...	[ "THE next afternoon I walked over to the Shimerdas'. Yulka showed me the\nbaby and told me that Antonia was shocking wheat on the southwest quarter.\nI went down across the fields, and Tony saw me from a long way off. She\nstood still by her shocks, leaning on her pitchfork, watching me as I\ncame. We met like the ...
2,086	19810_book_5,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim promised Antonia he would come back but it takes twenty years before he manages to do that. He hears that she got married to a cousin of Anton Jelinek, that she is poor and has a lot of children. When Jim is abroad he goes to Bohemia and sends Antonia some photos of her home village. He gets a letter from her with ...	[ "I TOLD Antonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty\nyears before I kept my promise. I heard of her from time to time; that she\nmarried, very soon after I last saw her, a young Bohemian, a cousin of\nAnton Jelinek; that they were poor, and had a large family. Once when I\nwas abroad I went in...
2,087	19810_book_5,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning Jim observes Leo some more. He is a quick, impatient boy. Jim dresses and washes and comes into the house for breakfast. Antonia wishes Jim could meet Martha except she doesn't get away from her own farm except on Sundays. Antonia misses seeing her grandchild. Antonia explains to Jim that she always tr...	[ "WHEN I awoke in the morning long bands of sunshine were coming in at the\nwindow and reaching back under the eaves where the two boys lay. Leo was\nwide awake and was tickling his brother's leg with a dried cone-flower he\nhad pulled out of the hay. Ambrosch kicked at him and turned over. I\nclosed my eyes and pre...
2,088	19810_book_5,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim finally says good-bye and leaves for Black Hawk. Jim is sad to leave Ambrosch, whom he likes so much. He tells him and Rudolph that they'll go hunting together next summer. Jim doesn't enjoy his day in Black Hawk because he doesn't recognize most of the people there. He hangs out with Anton Jelinek and an old lawye...	[ "AFTER dinner the next day I said good-bye and drove back to Hastings to\ntake the train for Black Hawk. Antonia and her children gathered round my\nbuggy before I started, and even the little ones looked up at me with\nfriendly faces. Leo and Ambrosch ran ahead to open the lane gate. When I\nreached the bottom of ...
2,089	19810_chapters_1-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After Jim Burden's parents die, his Virginia relatives send the ten-year-old boy to live with his grandparents on their Nebraska farm. He travels by train in the care of teenage Jake Marpole, who was a "hand," a man hired to do chores, on his father's farm. The passenger conductor tells Jim and Jake about an immigrant ...	[ "I FIRST heard of Antonia(1) on what seemed to me an interminable journey\nacross the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then;\nI had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia\nrelatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I\ntraveled in the care...
2,090	19810_chapters_5-8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Antonia and Jim ride over to visit Pavel and Peter, two Russians whom Antonia's father has befriended. Pavel isn't home, but Peter is delighted to see them. He shows them around the farm, feeds them watermelon, and entertains them by playing the harmonica. When they are ready to leave, he gives them some cucumbers for ...	[ "WE knew that things were hard for our Bohemian neighbors, but the two\ngirls were light-hearted and never complained. They were always ready to\nforget their troubles at home, and to run away with me over the prairie,\nscaring rabbits or starting up flocks of quail.", "I remember Antonia's excitement when she ca...
2,091	19810_chapters_9-12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The first few weeks of winter are beautiful but bitter, and Jim takes Antonia and Yulka in a sled, which Otto built, to the Russians' old house. When they start back, around four, the wind has come up, howling across the plains, and the sky has become gray. The girls begin shivering because their clothes aren't warm en...	[ "THE first snowfall came early in December. I remember how the world looked\nfrom our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning:\nthe low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out\ninto ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff\nwillow bushes. Big w...
2,057	19810_chapter_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A thaw follows Christmas, and the prairie is soon warmed by three weeks of fine weather. Mrs. Shimerda and Antonia visit the Burdens. Still grumbling, Mrs. Shimerda complains about how her family struggles in poverty while the Burdens live in relative luxury. She snatches an iron pot from the stove and complains that G...	[ "THE week following Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year's Day all\nthe world about us was a broth of gray slush, and the guttered slope\nbetween the windmill and the barn was running black water. The soft black\nearth stood out in patches along the roadsides. I resumed all my chores,\ncarried in the cobs a...
2,092	19810_chapters_14-16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Jim awakens on the morning of January 22, he learns that after dinner the night before, Mr. Shimerda committed suicide in the barn, putting the barrel of his gun into his mouth and pulling the trigger with his big toe. Ambrosch brought the news to the Burdens in the middle of the night and now is asleep on a bench...	[ "ON the morning of the 22d I wakened with a start. Before I opened my eyes,\nI seemed to know that something had happened. I heard excited voices in\nthe kitchen--grandmother's was so shrill that I knew she must be almost\nbeside herself. I looked forward to any new crisis with delight. What\ncould it be, I wondere...
2,093	19810_chapters_17-18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	By spring, the Shimerdas are living in their new log house, which the neighbors helped build. When Jim rides over to see them, Mrs. Shimerda questions him about what the men are doing in the fields; she thinks they're withholding valuable farming secrets from her family. Jim is amazed at the change in Antonia over the ...	[ "WHEN spring came, after that hard winter, one could not get enough of the\nnimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter\nwas over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used to watch\nin Virginia, no budding woods or blooming gardens. There was only--spring\nitself; the t...
2,063	19810_chapter_xix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	July comes on hot and breathless. Jim is kept busy carrying water to the men harvesting wheat. The Burdens enjoy having Antonia around, even though she clatters pans in the kitchen and runs through the house. Early every morning she goes with Jim to the garden to get vegetables for dinner, and she tells him that she pr...	[ "JULY came on with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the plains\nof Kansas and Nebraska the best corn country in the world. It seemed as if\nwe could hear the corn growing in the night; under the stars one caught a\nfaint crackling in the dewy, heavy-odored cornfields where the feathered\nstalks stood so ...
2,094	19810_chapters_1-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim has been living with his grandparents for nearly three years when they decide to move into the town of Black Hawk. Jake and Otto help them move, then they leave and go west together; except for a postcard from Otto, the Burdens never hear from them again. By April, Jim feels at home in town. "I could fight, play 'k...	[ "I HAD been living with my grandfather for nearly three years when he\ndecided to move to Black Hawk. He and grandmother were getting old for the\nheavy work of a farm, and as I was now thirteen they thought I ought to be\ngoing to school. Accordingly our homestead was rented to \"that good woman,\nthe Widow Steave...
2,095	19810_chapters_5-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lena and Tiny listen to Anson Kirkpatrick, "Marshall Field's man," play the piano and tell jokes and stories at the Boys' Home Hotel on Saturday nights. Lena tells Jim that she hopes he'll become a traveling salesman when he grows up because they lead such colorful lives. Jim watches Lena help her little brother, Chris...	[ "AFTER Lena came to Black Hawk I often met her downtown, where she would be\nmatching sewing silk or buying \"findings\" for Mrs. Thomas. If I happened\nto walk home with her, she told me all about the dresses she was helping\nto make, or about what she saw and heard when she was with Tiny Soderball\nat the hotel o...
2,096	19810_chapters_8-10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In June, four Italians -- the Vannis -- arrive in town and set up a dancing pavilion. Dancing becomes the trend this summer, just as roller skating was the trend last summer. Parents send their children to take dancing lessons from the Vannis. On Saturday evenings, the local boys go to the dance pavilion, risking "a ti...	[ "THE Harling children and I were never happier, never felt more contented\nand secure, than in the weeks of spring which broke that long winter. We\nwere out all day in the thin sunshine, helping Mrs. Harling and Tony break\nthe ground and plant the garden, dig around the orchard trees, tie up\nvines and clip the h...
2,097	19810_chapters_11-15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Living at the Cutters', Antonia has more time to spend with Lena, Tiny, and Norwegian Anna. One afternoon, the girls tease Jim about his grandmother's hope that he become a Baptist preacher when he grows up. Because Jim shows no interest in Black Hawk's young girls and prefers the older, hired girls' company, the towns...	[ "WICK CUTTER was the money-lender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter. When\na farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling\nor the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.", "Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious\nbringing-up. He contributed r...
2,098	19810_chapters_1-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim studies diligently during his freshman year at college and stays in Lincoln through the following summer. Gaston Cleric, a Latin teacher, becomes his mentor. Cleric awakens Jim's love for the classics. Although he admires Cleric's scholarship, Jim knows that his own mind is too crowded by memories of people and pla...	[ "AT the University I had the good fortune to come immediately under the\ninfluence of a brilliant and inspiring young scholar. Gaston Cleric had\narrived in Lincoln only a few weeks earlier than I, to begin his work as\nhead of the Latin Department. He came West at the suggestion of his\nphysicians, his health havi...
2,099	19810_chapters_1-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It takes Jim two years to finish his pre-law studies at Harvard. During a brief visit back to Black Hawk, he finds the town buzzing with gossip. Antonia went to Denver with Larry Donovan, who jilted her, and she returned home unmarried and pregnant with his child. Now back on the farm, she has become Ambrosch's drudge....	[ "TWO years after I left Lincoln I completed my academic course at Harvard.\nBefore I entered the Law School I went home for the summer vacation. On\nthe night of my arrival Mrs. Harling and Frances and Sally came over to\ngreet me. Everything seemed just as it used to be. My grandparents looked\nvery little older. ...
2,100	19810_chapters_1-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Twenty years pass. Jim has had little contact with Antonia. While traveling through Europe, he sent her pictures from Bohemia, and she wrote and thanked him, telling him the names and ages of her children. He heard from Tiny that Antonia's husband "was not a man of much force, and she had had a hard life." Jim has been...	[ "I TOLD Antonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty\nyears before I kept my promise. I heard of her from time to time; that she\nmarried, very soon after I last saw her, a young Bohemian, a cousin of\nAnton Jelinek; that they were poor, and had a large family. Once when I\nwas abroad I went in...
2,101	19810_book_1,_introduction_-_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	his girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood. Introduction The novel opens with an unnamed narrator recounting a train trip through Iowa the previous summer with an old friend named Jim Burden, with whom the narrator grew up in a small Nebraska town. The narrator recal...	[ "I FIRST heard of Antonia(1) on what seemed to me an interminable journey\nacross the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then;\nI had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia\nrelatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I\ntraveled in the care...
2,045	19810_book_i,_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The story begins with the narrator Jim Burden, age 10, travelling by rail across the country to Nebraska. Having just lost both his parents in Virginia, he is travelling with a hired man Jake Marpole to live with his grandparents. During the journey Jim reads the "Life of Jesse James," which he thoroughly enjoys. Jim f...	[ "I FIRST heard of Antonia(1) on what seemed to me an interminable journey\nacross the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then;\nI had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia\nrelatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I\ntraveled in the care...
2,046	19810_book_i,_chapter_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim wakes up in the afternoon in a small bed, with his grandmother smiling over him. She comments on how much like his father he looks, and he follows her to the kitchen to take a bath. Their home is very pleasant and clean, with flowers in the windows and plaster on the dirt walls. Jim's grandmother is energetic, with...	[ "I DO not remember our arrival at my grandfather's farm sometime before\ndaybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses.\nWhen I awoke, it was afternoon. I was lying in a little room, scarcely\nlarger than the bed that held me, and the window-shade at my head was\nflapping softly in a warm wi...
2,047	19810_book_i,_chapter_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Sunday morning Otto, Grandmother, and Jim drive across fields of red grass to visit the new Bohemian family that has recently settled in the area. They are the first Bohemian family to move to this area, and they purchased their farm from another Bohemian man named Peter Krajiek. The farm and house are not particula...	[ "ON Sunday morning Otto Fuchs was to drive us over to make the acquaintance\nof our new Bohemian neighbors. We were taking them some provisions, as\nthey had come to live on a wild place where there was no garden or\nchicken-house, and very little broken land. Fuchs brought up a sack of\npotatoes and a piece of cur...
2,048	19810_book_i,_chapter_iv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim reminisces about the countryside in this chapter. He recounts how he used to ride his pony Dude to the post office and to give messages. During this time there are no fences, and Jim likes to ride on the roads bordered by sunflowers. He hears that the Mormons had planted the sunflowers when they were fleeing to Uta...	[ "ON the afternoon of that same Sunday I took my first long ride on my pony,\nunder Otto's direction. After that Dude and I went twice a week to the\npost-office, six miles east of us, and I saved the men a good deal of time\nby riding on errands to our neighbors. When we had to borrow anything, or\nto send about wo...
2,049	19810_book_i,_chapter_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Even though the Shimerdas are having trouble getting used to their new home, the two young girls never complain and are always happy. One day Antonia tells Jim that her father had met two Russian men, Peter and Pavel, who speak a dialect similar to the Shimerdas. Pavel is tall, skinny, and wasted-looking; he makes exci...	[ "WE knew that things were hard for our Bohemian neighbors, but the two\ngirls were light-hearted and never complained. They were always ready to\nforget their troubles at home, and to run away with me over the prairie,\nscaring rabbits or starting up flocks of quail.", "I remember Antonia's excitement when she ca...
2,050	19810_book_i,_chapter_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One afternoon Jim and "Tony" are sitting outside in the sun for their English lesson. Tony begins talking about badgers and how they are hunted by special dogs in her native country. It is almost winter, so all the insects, except one, are dead. Tony picks the bug up and begins to speak to it in Bohemian, and it starts...	[ "ONE afternoon we were having our reading lesson on the warm, grassy bank\nwhere the badger lived. It was a day of amber sunlight, but there was a\nshiver of coming winter in the air. I had seen ice on the little\nhorse-pond that morning, and as we went through the garden we found the\ntall asparagus, with its red ...
2,051	19810_book_i,_chapter_vii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	According to Jim, Antonia often treats him a little condescendingly, until one autumn adventure that changes her opinion of him. One day Jim takes Antonia on his pony so that she can borrow a spade from Russian Peter. Afterwards, they go look at the ten-acre large prairie dog town. Suddenly, Antonia screams in Bohemian...	[ "MUCH as I liked Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took\nwith me. She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of\nthe world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her\nprotecting manner. Before the autumn was over she began to treat me more\nlike an equal and to def...
2,052	19810_book_i,_chapter_viii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter Jim relates the story of the two Russian men, Peter and Pavel. During the autumn they are having a lot of bad luck. Peter owes money to Wick Cutter, a ruthless money-lender from Black Hawk, and he is forced to mortgage everything. In addition, Pavel injured himself while at work and is now bedridden. On...	[ "WHILE the autumn color was growing pale on the grass and cornfields,\nthings went badly with our friends the Russians. Peter told his troubles\nto Mr. Shimerda: he was unable to meet a note which fell due on the first\nof November; had to pay an exorbitant bonus on renewing it, and to give a\nmortgage on his pigs ...
2,053	19810_book_i,_chapter_ix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In December it snows for the first time. A little way from the house, there is a circle in the grass where the Indians used to ride their horses around, and Jim thinks that the pattern in the snow looks like a good omen. Jim begins to ride around in the snow in a sleigh that Otto Fuchs makes him. One day Jim takes Anto...	[ "THE first snowfall came early in December. I remember how the world looked\nfrom our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning:\nthe low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out\ninto ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff\nwillow bushes. Big w...
2,054	19810_book_i,_chapter_x	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	For several weeks Jim doesn't hear anything from the Shimerdas because he's inside sick. One day Otto says that he saw Mr. Shimerda hunting, wearing the one winter coat that the whole family shares. Apparently the family is so poor that they eat prairie dogs, so the next day Grandmother decides to bring over food and c...	[ "FOR several weeks after my sleigh-ride, we heard nothing from the\nShimerdas. My sore throat kept me indoors, and grandmother had a cold\nwhich made the housework heavy for her. When Sunday came she was glad to\nhave a day of rest. One night at supper Fuchs told us he had seen Mr.\nShimerda out hunting.", "\"He'...
2,055	19810_book_i,_chapter_xi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jake is supposed to go to Black Hawk to make the family's Christmas purchases, but it snows so much that it is decided that he shouldn't go. The family has a country Christmas instead and makes everyone's gifts. With Grandmother's help, Jim makes picture books for Yulka and Antonia. On the day before Christmas, Jake br...	[ "DURING the week before Christmas, Jake was the most important person of\nour household, for he was to go to town and do all our Christmas shopping.\nBut on the 21st of December, the snow began to fall. The flakes came down\nso thickly that from the sitting-room windows I could not see beyond the\nwindmill--its fra...
2,056	19810_book_i,_chapter_xii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Christmas morning, Jim wakes up, and the whole family listens to Grandfather solemnly and simply make morning prayers. Grandfather's prayers always reflect his present thoughts, and Jim asserts that it is through them that one got to know his thoughts and feelings. That day they all do miscellaneous chores and play ...	[ "ON Christmas morning, when I got down to the kitchen, the men were just\ncoming in from their morning chores--the horses and pigs always had their\nbreakfast before we did. Jake and Otto shouted \"Merry Christmas\"! to me,\nand winked at each other when they saw the waffle-irons on the stove. Grandfather came down...
2,057	19810_book_i,_chapter_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During the week after Christmas, the snow starts to thaw for awhile, and Antonia and her mother come over to visit. Mrs. Shimerda had never been to the house before, and the entire time she looks at everything enviously and complains that the Burdens have so much more than she does. She asks Grandmother for a pot, whic...	[ "THE week following Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year's Day all\nthe world about us was a broth of gray slush, and the guttered slope\nbetween the windmill and the barn was running black water. The soft black\nearth stood out in patches along the roadsides. I resumed all my chores,\ncarried in the cobs a...
2,058	19810_book_i,_chapter_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the 22nd Jim wakes up excited because it sound like there is a crisis going on downstairs. Otto and Jake look exhausted and cold, while Ambrosch is asleep on the bench. Grandfather tells them that Mr. Shimerda is dead and that Otto and Jake had gone over in the middle of the night with Ambrosch. At breakfast, Otto s...	[ "ON the morning of the 22d I wakened with a start. Before I opened my eyes,\nI seemed to know that something had happened. I heard excited voices in\nthe kitchen--grandmother's was so shrill that I knew she must be almost\nbeside herself. I looked forward to any new crisis with delight. What\ncould it be, I wondere...
2,059	19810_book_i,_chapter_xv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After returning from Black Hawk, Otto tells them that a coroner will arrive shortly but that it is impossible for the priest to come. He brings with him a young, strong, and confident Bohemian man named Anton Jelinek, who tells Grandfather that it is very bad that a priest is unavailable. Jelinek tells about how, durin...	[ "OTTO FUCHS got back from Black Hawk at noon the next day. He reported that\nthe coroner would reach the Shimerdas' sometime that afternoon, but the\nmissionary priest was at the other end of his parish, a hundred miles\naway, and the trains were not running. Fuchs had got a few hours' sleep at\nthe livery barn in ...
2,060	19810_book_i,_chapter_xvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the fifth day Mr. Shimerda is buried, but Jake and Jelinek have to chop him away from the pool of frozen blood surrounding him. When Antonia sees Jim for the first time since her father's death, she clings to him so tightly that he seems to feel her heart break. Once the neighbors arrive, it's time to start the fune...	[ "MR. SHIMERDA lay dead in the barn four days, and on the fifth they buried\nhim. All day Friday Jelinek was off with Ambrosch digging the grave,\nchopping out the frozen earth with old axes. On Saturday we breakfasted\nbefore daylight and got into the wagon with the coffin. Jake and Jelinek\nwent ahead on horseback...
2,061	19810_book_i,_chapter_xvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Finally spring comes, and Jim says that the coming of spring in Nebraska is much different than anything he had experienced in Virginia. Spring is everywhere, and you can just tell that it's there. People are burning their pastures before the new grass starts to grow, and the smell pervades the prairie. Neighbors are h...	[ "WHEN spring came, after that hard winter, one could not get enough of the\nnimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter\nwas over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used to watch\nin Virginia, no budding woods or blooming gardens. There was only--spring\nitself; the t...
2,062	19810_book_i,_chapter_xviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim starts school and tries to get back at Antonia by becoming friends with his classmates, even though he thinks they're boring. He is resentful that Antonia seems to worship Ambrosch, while she treats him with mild disdain. He recounts how the Burdens and Shimerdas were further estranged that spring. Jim and Jake wen...	[ "AFTER I began to go to the country school, I saw less of the Bohemians. We\nwere sixteen pupils at the sod schoolhouse, and we all came on horseback\nand brought our dinner. My schoolmates were none of them very interesting,\nbut I somehow felt that by making comrades of them I was getting even with\nAntonia for h...
2,063	19810_book_i,_chapter_xix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In July the heat comes, and the corn grows fabulously. Jim notes that his grandfather has already predicted that in the future the American Midwest will produce enough corn for the rest of the world. During this time Antonia is mostly working in the kitchen with Grandmother, but she also goes outside to work with Jim i...	[ "JULY came on with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the plains\nof Kansas and Nebraska the best corn country in the world. It seemed as if\nwe could hear the corn growing in the night; under the stars one caught a\nfaint crackling in the dewy, heavy-odored cornfields where the feathered\nstalks stood so ...
2,064	19810_book_ii,_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After Jim lives in the country for three years, his grandfather, who feels like he is getting too old and that Jim needs to go to school, decided to move to Black Hawk. The Burdens sell their farm to the Widow Steavens and buy a house at the very edge of town. Otto decides to go West, and Jake follows him, even though ...	[ "I HAD been living with my grandfather for nearly three years when he\ndecided to move to Black Hawk. He and grandmother were getting old for the\nheavy work of a farm, and as I was now thirteen they thought I ought to be\ngoing to school. Accordingly our homestead was rented to \"that good woman,\nthe Widow Steave...
2,065	19810_book_ii,_chapter_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim begins this chapter by describing their Norwegian neighbors, the Harlings. Mr. Harling is very successful and frequently away on business, and his wife generally runs the household. She is short, sturdy, and jolly. There are three Harling children around Jim's age: Charley, Julia, and Sally the tomboy. The oldest d...	[ "GRANDMOTHER often said that if she had to live in town, she thanked God\nshe lived next the Harlings. They had been farming people, like ourselves,\nand their place was like a little farm, with a big barn and a garden, and\nan orchard and grazing lots,--even a windmill. The Harlings were\nNorwegians, and Mrs. Harl...
2,066	19810_book_ii,_chapter_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Antonia soon comes to work for the Harlings, and Jim and Grandmother are very happy to see her. Antonia likes working in town and learning English, and she plays with the children a lot. Jim is jealous because Antonia has a crush on Charley Harling and is always trying to do nice things for him. The Harling household i...	[ "ON Saturday Ambrosch drove up to the back gate, and Antonia jumped down\nfrom the wagon and ran into our kitchen just as she used to do. She was\nwearing shoes and stockings, and was breathless and excited. She gave me a\nplayful shake by the shoulders. \"You ain't forget about me, Jim?\"", "Grandmother kissed h...
2,067	19810_book_ii,_chapter_iv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While Antonia is making a cake for Charley and being teased because of it, a young girl from the country named Lena Lingard appears at the door. She is prettily dressed like a town girl, and Antonia doesn't recognize her at first. Lena is going to work in town for Mrs. Thomas the dressmaker. Mrs. Harling warns Lena to ...	[ "\"I won't have none of your weevily wheat, and I won't have none of your\n barley,\n But I'll take a measure of fine white flour, to make a cake for\n Charley.\"", "WE were singing rhymes to tease Antonia while she was beating up one of\nCharley's favorite cakes in her big mixing-bowl....
2,068	19810_book_ii,_chapter_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim frequently meets Lena downtown, and they used to walk home together and talk. Lena tells him about a hotel called the Boys' Home where she and Tiny Soderball would listen to the entertainment being put on for traveling salesmen. The traveling men would give Tiny gifts. One day Jim meets Lena and her young brother C...	[ "AFTER Lena came to Black Hawk I often met her downtown, where she would be\nmatching sewing silk or buying \"findings\" for Mrs. Thomas. If I happened\nto walk home with her, she told me all about the dresses she was helping\nto make, or about what she saw and heard when she was with Tiny Soderball\nat the hotel o...
2,069	19810_book_ii,_chapter_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is winter again, and it seems like the cold, bleak light of the winter is the light of truth. Winter is like punishment for the summer. The streets become more and more deserted, as people run from building to building and stay in their warm homes. Jim would often stop in at the Harlings, and if Mr. Harling wasn't a...	[ "WINTER comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind\nthat sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens\nthat hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw\ncloser together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green\ntree-tops, now stare you in t...
2,070	19810_book_ii,_chapter_vii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim is bored of winter by March. During that month the only exciting thing that happens is when Blind d'Arnault, a negro pianist, comes to play at the Boys' Home on a Saturday night. The atmosphere is free and relaxed, particularly because the proprietor, the snobbish and proper Mrs. Gardener, is not present. Blind d'A...	[ "WINTER lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and\nshabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and\nmen's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.\nBut in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and\npinched, frozen down to th...
2,071	19810_book_ii,_chapter_viii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim and the Harling children feel the happiest and most content that spring just playing in the garden. They do not yet know that the summer will change everything. In the beginning of summer, some Italians come into town and set up a dancing pavilion in a vacant lot. They begin giving dancing lessons to children, and ...	[ "THE Harling children and I were never happier, never felt more contented\nand secure, than in the weeks of spring which broke that long winter. We\nwere out all day in the thin sunshine, helping Mrs. Harling and Tony break\nthe ground and plant the garden, dig around the orchard trees, tie up\nvines and clip the h...
2,072	19810_book_ii,_chapter_ix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim describes the social situation of the hired girls in this chapter. The hired girls from the country had generally made sacrifices in order to help their families survive their first year or two in a new country, and they were therefore less educated than their younger siblings. They were, however, wise, mature, and...	[ "THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men felt\nthe attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town\nto earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle\nout of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family\nto go to scho...
2,073	19810_book_ii,_chapter_x	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Antonia starts going to the dances all the time, and people begin to talk about her. Boys start hanging around the house at all times, and one night Mr. Harling happens to see a boy jumping over his fence. Antonia explains that an engaged man had tried to kiss her after walking her home and she had slapped him. Mr. Har...	[ "IT was at the Vannis' tent that Antonia was discovered. Hitherto she had\nbeen looked upon more as a ward of the Harlings than as one of the \"hired\ngirls.\" She had lived in their house and yard and garden; her thoughts\nnever seemed to stray outside that little kingdom. But after the tent came\nto town she bega...
2,074	19810_book_ii,_chapter_xi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Wick Cutter the money-lender is a sketchy philanderer who likes to gamble, and he had gotten two Swedish servant girls pregnant. He and his wife fight constantly and viciously. Mrs. Cutter is a sharp and scary-looking person who obsessively paints china. The Cutters fight about the question of inheritance, and each bla...	[ "WICK CUTTER was the money-lender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter. When\na farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling\nor the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.", "Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious\nbringing-up. He contributed r...
2,075	19810_book_ii,_chapter_xii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Antonia becomes obsessed with going dancing, and she starts wearing clothes that she copies from high-society ladies. Every afternoon Jim and his friends would watch Antonia, Lena, and Tiny go downtown, and sometimes Jim would catch up with them and take them to an ice-cream parlor. He thinks Antonia is still the prett...	[ "AFTER Antonia went to live with the Cutters, she seemed to care about\nnothing but picnics and parties and having a good time. When she was not\ngoing to a dance, she sewed until midnight. Her new clothes were the\nsubject of caustic comment. Under Lena's direction she copied Mrs.\nGardener's new party dress and M...
2,076	19810_book_ii,_chapter_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jim's grandmother is crying one afternoon because she has heard that he has been going to the Saturday night dances. He promises not to go anymore since she is so sad that he may be growing up to be a bad boy. As a result, he has a very boring spring and does extra reading to get some college requirements out of the wa...	[ "I NOTICED one afternoon that grandmother had been crying. Her feet seemed\nto drag as she moved about the house, and I got up from the table where I\nwas studying and went to her, asking if she did n't feel well, and if I\ncould n't help her with her work.", "\"No, thank you, Jim. I'm troubled, but I guess I'm w...
2,077	19810_book_ii,_chapter_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After Commencement Jim begins studying Latin seriously for college. Only once during the summer does he take a break to go pick elders with the hired girls. Arriving at the river first and going swimming, he realizes he's going to miss Black Hawk and the country. The girls arrive when he's still in the water, and he gr...	[ "THE day after Commencement I moved my books and desk upstairs, to an empty\nroom where I should be undisturbed, and I fell to studying in earnest. I\nworked off a year's trigonometry that summer, and began Virgil alone.\nMorning after morning I used to pace up and down my sunny little room,\nlooking off at the dis...
2,078	19810_book_ii,_chapter_xv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the end of the summer, the Cutters leave Black Hawk on a business trip, and Antonia comes to the Burdens to complain about feeling uneasy. Mr. Cutter had put all the silver and important documents under Antonia's bed and told her that she had to sleep there in order to keep them safe. Worried that Mr. Cutter is play...	[ "LATE in August the Cutters went to Omaha for a few days, leaving Antonia\nin charge of the house. Since the scandal about the Swedish girl, Wick\nCutter could never get his wife to stir out of Black Hawk without him.", "The day after the Cutters left, Antonia came over to see us. Grandmother\nnoticed that she se...
2,079	19810_book_iii,_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the University in Lincoln, Jim meets Gaston Cleric, who is his mentor in the Latin Department and who arrived at the same time he did. Jim stays in Lincoln during the summer studying Greek, and he spends a lot of time socializing with Gaston, who helps effect his mental awakening. During that time, the University is...	[ "AT the University I had the good fortune to come immediately under the\ninfluence of a brilliant and inspiring young scholar. Gaston Cleric had\narrived in Lincoln only a few weeks earlier than I, to begin his work as\nhead of the Latin Department. He came West at the suggestion of his\nphysicians, his health havi...
2,080	19810_book_iii,_chapter_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One day during September Jim is sitting in his room reading Virgil and thinking about one particular line which, translated, means, "I was the first to bring the Muse into my country. He thinks about how Gaston may feel like that about his New England hometown when suddenly, Lena Lingard appears at his door. He doesn't...	[ "ONE March evening in my Sophomore year I was sitting alone in my room\nafter supper. There had been a warm thaw all day, with mushy yards and\nlittle streams of dark water gurgling cheerfully into the streets out of\nold snow-banks. My window was open, and the earthy wind blowing through\nmade me indolent. On the ...
2,102	19810_book_iii,_chapter_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lena and Jim start going to plays together, with Lena insistent that she pay her own way. With excitement, they go see a new play called "Camille," set to the opera "Traviata" and written by Alexandre Dumas' son. Immediately, Jim is enthralled by the play. He loves the scenery and even now feels hungry when he thinks a...	[ "IN Lincoln the best part of the theatrical season came late, when the good\ncompanies stopped off there for one-night stands, after their long runs in\nNew York and Chicago. That spring Lena went with me to see Joseph\nJefferson in \"Rip Van Winkle,\" and to a war play called \"Shenandoah.\" She\nwas inflexible ab...

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