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2,081 | 19810_book_iii,_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Lena is not aggressive or high-strung, she is doing very well in her dressmaking business. People come to her because of her sense of style, even though she often gets behind schedule and over budget. Jim frequently sits in her parlor to wait for her, and they like to eat Sunday breakfasts together in a cozy n... | [
"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_iv,_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After graduating from Harvard two years later, Jim goes home for a visit before starting law school. He sees the Harlings and his grandparents, who look exactly the same. He is told that "poor Antonia" had a baby after Larry Donovan ran off and is now living at the farm with Ambrosch, where she is barely heard of. Jim ... | [
"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_iv,_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim takes his grandparents to have their picture taken, and while at the photographer, sees an elaborately framed portrait of Antonia's baby. He decides that he must see her and is happy that Antonia is not too ashamed to hide her baby from public view. Larry Donovan is a passenger conductor for the railroad and acts l... | [
"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_iv,_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the way to see Widow Steavens, Jim looks at the country and seems to remember every single aspect of it. Mrs. Steavens asks him to stay the night, and after dinner she begins to tell Antonia's story: The summer before she was supposed to be married, Antonia used to come to the Widow Steaven's house and sew her fine ... | [
"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_iv,_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim goes to see Antonia the next day and finds her looking strong and healthy, though a little wornout. She is only twenty-four. Jim tells her everything about his life: how he plans to study law in New York City and how Gaston Cleric had died last winter. Antonia is sad that Jim is leaving Nebraska for good, but she k... | [
"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_v,_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After twenty years, Jim goes to visit Antonia again. He had sent her pictures of Bohemia when he went to visit, and he had visited Tiny and Lena in San Francisco, who told him that Antonia had remarried a Bohemian man named Anton Cuzak, had a hard life, and had about ten or eleven children. Jim was afraid to see the ef... | [
"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_v,_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Jim wakes up, he secretly watches Leo, who seems to have a devil-may-care attitude about everything. After breakfast, Antonia tells him how sad she was when her oldest daughter Martha got married and had to move away, and then her husband arrives from his little holiday in town. Papa" looks worn, yet lively, and h... | [
"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_v,_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day Jim says goodbye to Antonia and all her children. Leo and Ambrosch run ahead to open the gate, and Leo disappears before Jim can say goodbye. Ambrosch explains that he's either sad that Jim's leaving or jealous of his mother's affection. Jim is sad to leave Ambrosch, who is very manly, and he promises to c... | [
"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 ... |
2,045 | 19810_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim Burden first heard of Antonia when he was on a very long train ride out west to Nebraska. He was ten years old and was being sent out west to his grandparents by his Virginia relatives after his parents had died. He was brought out by Jake Marpole, a man who has been hired by his grandparents. As he rides the train... | [
"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_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jims party reaches his grandparents farm at dawn, but he is fast asleep and later wakes in a small bedroom. Hs grandmother is with him. She has been crying, but she smiles when she sees him wake up and helps him with his new clothes. She takes him to the kitchen, located in the basement, and readies his bath for him. H... | [
"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_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On Sunday morning, Otto Fuchs drives Jim and his grandmother to the Shimerdas to take them some provisions. On the way, Jims grandmother tells him the Shimerdas have been cheated by their countrymen, Peter Krajiek, who sold them the land and livestock and some equipment for scandalous prices. When they get to the Shime... | [
"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_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On Sunday morning, Otto Fuchs drives Jim and his grandmother to the Shimerdas to take them some provisions. On the way, Jims grandmother tells him the Shimerdas have been cheated by their countrymen, Peter Krajiek, who sold them the land and livestock and some equipment for scandalous prices. When they get to the Shime... | [
"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_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Burdens realize things are hard for the Shimerdas, but Antonia and her sister are always lighthearted about their troubles. They often spend time playing with Jim on the prairie. One day Antonia comes to the kitchen excited to say that they have met two Russians and that her father is able to communicate with them.... | [
"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_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Burdens realize things are hard for the Shimerdas, but Antonia and her sister are always lighthearted about their troubles. They often spend time playing with Jim on the prairie. One day Antonia comes to the kitchen excited to say that they have met two Russians and that her father is able to communicate with them.... | [
"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_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim has begun to hate Antonias superior tone with him. She is four years older than he and seems to regard him as if he were the inferior one, when he feels it is clear that as a boy, he is superior to her as a girl. One day his problem is solved. She is sent by her brother to get a spade from the Russians and Jim acco... | [
"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_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim has begun to hate Antonias superior tone with him. She is four years older than he and seems to regard him as if he were the inferior one, when he feels it is clear that as a boy, he is superior to her as a girl. One day his problem is solved. She is sent by her brother to get a spade from the Russians and Jim acco... | [
"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_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It begins to snow in early December. Otto Fuchs makes a sled for Jim out of a wooden goods-box. Jim hooks the sled up to his horse and goes to pick up Antonia and Julka. The girls arent dressed for the winter, so they are cold the whole time, but still, they are thrilled to be outside having fun instead of stuck inside... | [
"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_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It begins to snow in early December. Otto Fuchs makes a sled for Jim out of a wooden goods-box. Jim hooks the sled up to his horse and goes to pick up Antonia and Julka. The girls arent dressed for the winter, so they are cold the whole time, but still, they are thrilled to be outside having fun instead of stuck inside... | [
"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_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Christmas, Jake had intended to go to the country store to make everyones Christmas purchases. When the day drew near, the roads were impassable and Grandfather refused to let him try to make it, knowing he would get lost many times over. Jim had planned to buy some picture books for Antonia and Julka. Grandmoth... | [
"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_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before Christmas, Jake had intended to go to the country store to make everyones Christmas purchases. When the day drew near, the roads were impassable and Grandfather refused to let him try to make it, knowing he would get lost many times over. Jim had planned to buy some picture books for Antonia and Julka. Grandmoth... | [
"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_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The week after Christmas brings a thaw which makes a grey slush of everything. During this time, Antonia and her mother come for a visit. It is the first time Mrs. Shimerda has visited the Burdens house and she rushes from room to room exclaiming over their fine things and commenting to Antonia in "an envious and compl... | [
"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_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The week after Christmas brings a thaw which makes a grey slush of everything. During this time, Antonia and her mother come for a visit. It is the first time Mrs. Shimerda has visited the Burdens house and she rushes from room to room exclaiming over their fine things and commenting to Antonia in "an envious and compl... | [
"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_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Otto Fuchs returns from Black Hawk. He has reported the death to the coroner, who will reach the Shimerdas that afternoon. The priest, however, is a hundred miles away and there are no trains running that can bring him back. Fuchs brings a country mate of the Shimerdas, a young man named Anton Jelinek, who has been liv... | [
"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_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After four days, Mr. Shimerda is laid into the ground. Jelinek and Ambrosch have to work at the grave all day long to dig the hole in the frozen ground. All the neighbors come despite the weather. Jim catches a glimpse of the body before it is buried. The only identifiable part is the hand which looks as it always did.... | [
"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_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After four days, Mr. Shimerda is laid into the ground. Jelinek and Ambrosch have to work at the grave all day long to dig the hole in the frozen ground. All the neighbors come despite the weather. Jim catches a glimpse of the body before it is buried. The only identifiable part is the hand which looks as it always did.... | [
"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_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim and fifteen other country children go to school in the sod schoolhouse. He doesnt find much of interest in his classmates, but he befriends them anyway as a way to get back at Antonia for not caring about him. Now that Mr. Shimerda has died, Ambrosch is the head of the house. Antonia and Mrs. Shimerda treat him as ... | [
"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_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim and fifteen other country children go to school in the sod schoolhouse. He doesnt find much of interest in his classmates, but he befriends them anyway as a way to get back at Antonia for not caring about him. Now that Mr. Shimerda has died, Ambrosch is the head of the house. Antonia and Mrs. Shimerda treat him as ... | [
"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_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After three years on the prairie, Jim moves to Black Hawk with his grandparents, who feel they are getting too old for the heavy work of farm life. They rent their farm to the Widow Steavens and her brother and buy a house from Preacher White. They have moved by March. Otto and Jake stay will them until they are fully ... | [
"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_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After three years on the prairie, Jim moves to Black Hawk with his grandparents, who feel they are getting too old for the heavy work of farm life. They rent their farm to the Widow Steavens and her brother and buy a house from Preacher White. They have moved by March. Otto and Jake stay will them until they are fully ... | [
"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_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ambrosch brings Antonia over on Saturday. She rushes into the Burdens kitchen and thinks hopefully that she will soon be the kind of girl Jim likes best since shes now to live in the city. Antonia settles into work easily and her only problem is that she often drops her work to play with the children. Jim finds that he... | [
"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_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ambrosch brings Antonia over on Saturday. She rushes into the Burdens kitchen and thinks hopefully that she will soon be the kind of girl Jim likes best since shes now to live in the city. Antonia settles into work easily and her only problem is that she often drops her work to play with the children. Jim finds that he... | [
"\"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_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim often meets Lena Lingard downtown. She likes to talk about the dresses she is making and all the things she sees and hears about when she is with her friend Tony Soderball at the hotel, The Boys Home, in town. The Boys Home is the most popular place in town for the traveling salesmen. Sunday night was their big nig... | [
"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_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim often meets Lena Lingard downtown. She likes to talk about the dresses she is making and all the things she sees and hears about when she is with her friend Tony Soderball at the hotel, The Boys Home, in town. The Boys Home is the most popular place in town for the traveling salesmen. Sunday night was their big nig... | [
"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_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winter takes a very long time to leave a small Nebraska town. Jim notices the difference between his experience of the winters on the farm and his winter in town. On the farm, people continued in their work, but life in Black Hawk seems to shrink in the winter. One night, the monotony is broken when Blind dArnault, an ... | [
"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_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim and the Harlings are thrilled with the spring. They are outside every day helping Mrs. Harling and Antonia plant the garden and maintain it. Jim writes that the summer that was to come would change everything, but that no one knew it the day the Vannis pull into town with their traveling dance company. They set up ... | [
"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_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim and the Harlings are thrilled with the spring. They are outside every day helping Mrs. Harling and Antonia plant the garden and maintain it. Jim writes that the summer that was to come would change everything, but that no one knew it the day the Vannis pull into town with their traveling dance company. They set up ... | [
"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_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Antonia is discovered by the young men of the town at the Vannis dance nights. Before these nights, she had always been considered more of a ward of the Harlings than one of the hired girls. Antonia is the best dancer of all of them. Jim can hear rumors among the town folk that Antonia will soon be causing Mrs. Harling... | [
"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_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Antonia is discovered by the young men of the town at the Vannis dance nights. Before these nights, she had always been considered more of a ward of the Harlings than one of the hired girls. Antonia is the best dancer of all of them. Jim can hear rumors among the town folk that Antonia will soon be causing Mrs. Harling... | [
"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_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Antonia moves into the Cutters house, she spends all her time in preparation for dances or at them. Lena helps her make dresses that are exact imitations of those worn by the women of means in the town, but with cheaper materials. She spends all her time with Tiny, Lena and Norwegian Anna. Jim remembers that the ... | [
"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_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day Jim notices his grandmother has been crying. When he asks her the matter, she says she has heard talk about him. He apologizes for sneaking out of the house to go to the dances and promises that he will do it no longer. After that he decides to study Latin so he can enter college in the fall with no requirement... | [
"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_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After his graduation, Jim moves his room upstairs so he can study in earnest without being disturbed. He studies Latin and trigonometry. He becomes friends with Mrs. Harling again, and she champions his case with his grandparents. They worry that he is too young to go off to college alone and she contends that he will ... | [
"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_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After his graduation, Jim moves his room upstairs so he can study in earnest without being disturbed. He studies Latin and trigonometry. He becomes friends with Mrs. Harling again, and she champions his case with his grandparents. They worry that he is too young to go off to college alone and she contends that he will ... | [
"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_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the university, Jim comes under the mentorship of Gaston Cleric, a romantic Latin scholar with ruined health. He has been sent to Nebraska for his health. Jim has to stay in Lincoln after his first terms at school so he can finish a years worth of Greek. He finds this time of mental awakening one of the best times o... | [
"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_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the university, Jim comes under the mentorship of Gaston Cleric, a romantic Latin scholar with ruined health. He has been sent to Nebraska for his health. Jim has to stay in Lincoln after his first terms at school so he can finish a years worth of Greek. He finds this time of mental awakening one of the best times o... | [
"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_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The theatrical season in Lincoln comes after the main season in New York and Chicago. The theatrical companies come to Lincoln after theyve played in these large cities. Jim takes Lena to many plays and enjoys her company. Lena is completely mesmerized by the stage, the costumes, the emotion of the actors, and the pure... | [
"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... |
2,081 | 19810_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The theatrical season in Lincoln comes after the main season in New York and Chicago. The theatrical companies come to Lincoln after theyve played in these large cities. Jim takes Lena to many plays and enjoys her company. Lena is completely mesmerized by the stage, the costumes, the emotion of the actors, and the pure... | [
"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_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After two years at Harvard in which he completes his academic courses, Jim returns to Black Hawk for a visit. He finds Antonia has been disgraced with an out of wedlock baby and a desertion by her lover, Larry Donovan. He is disgusted with her and refuses to go visit her on her brothers farm. He also hears about Tiny S... | [
"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_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After two years at Harvard in which he completes his academic courses, Jim returns to Black Hawk for a visit. He finds Antonia has been disgraced with an out of wedlock baby and a desertion by her lover, Larry Donovan. He is disgusted with her and refuses to go visit her on her brothers farm. He also hears about Tiny S... | [
"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_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the beginning of August, Jim goes to see the Widow Steavens. He notices the great changes that have happened in the land. The red prairies have almost completely disappeared and the sod houses have been replaced with wood-framed houses. He approves of these changes greatly. When he gets to Mrs. Steavens house, the h... | [
"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_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the beginning of August, Jim goes to see the Widow Steavens. He notices the great changes that have happened in the land. The red prairies have almost completely disappeared and the sod houses have been replaced with wood-framed houses. He approves of these changes greatly. When he gets to Mrs. Steavens house, the h... | [
"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_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jim takes twenty years to return to Antonia for a visit. He hears of her over the years, that she married a Bohemian immigrant and that they were poor and had a large family. One time when he was abroad, he visited Bohemia and sent Antonia pictures of her native village from Prague. Later, he got a letter from her tell... | [
"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_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Jim wakes up in the barn and acts as if he is still asleep so he can watch Leo at play. He goes out and joins Antonia who tells him all about her daughter Martha who is married to a very industrious young farmer and has a fine baby. Antonia tells him that she wouldnt have married Cusak if he hadnt acc... | [
"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_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Jim wakes up in the barn and acts as if he is still asleep so he can watch Leo at play. He goes out and joins Antonia who tells him all about her daughter Martha who is married to a very industrious young farmer and has a fine baby. Antonia tells him that she wouldnt have married Cusak if he hadnt acc... | [
"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_book_1,_parts_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Introduction My Antonia opens with a short frame story: the author relates a chance meeting with an old acquaintance, Jim Burden, on a train ride through Iowa. The time appears to be roughly contemporary with the publication of the novel . The two adults reminisce about their shared Nebraska childhood, where they firs... | [
"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_book_1,_parts_5-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Parts V - VIII Part V Jim's relationship with Antonia and Yulka develops further, and he enjoys their ability to be lighthearted despite the struggles of their family. Antonia announces to the Burdens that her father has made friends with two Russian immigrants from the town, Pavel and Peter. Neither speak very good En... | [
"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_book_1,_parts_9-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Parts IX - XII Part IX The snow begins to fall in Black Hawk, and the falling snow seems to bring out an old circular impression near the Burdens' farm that Jim says was left by Native Americans training horses. When the snow becomes passable on horse, Otto Fuchs rigs a sleigh for Jim to run errands with. He 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... |
2,103 | 19810_book_1,_parts_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Parts XIII - XVI Part XIII In a few weeks the weather warms and there is a thaw. Antonia and her mother come to the Burden house to visit. Mrs. Shimerda admires their home and complains about her lack of resources, getting Mrs. Burden to give her a pot out of pity. She seems to try this strategy with several other thin... | [
"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... |
2,104 | 19810_book_1,_parts_17-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Parts XVII - XIX Part XVII Spring arrives, and the Shimerdas have built themselves a new log cabin. They have bought a cow from the Burdens, and paid for half of it. Mrs. Shimerda has taken to asking Jim questions about what his family plans to do with their crops, acting like she doesn't trust his family to be honest... | [
"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... |
2,105 | 19810_book_2,_parts_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book II: The Hired Girls Parts I - III Part I The section begins with the Burden family deciding to move into the town of Black Hawk, just as Jim reaches age 13. The Burdens are getting old, and they don't feel like they are up to the work anymore. Jake and Otto are no longer needed, so they help the Burdens move into ... | [
"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... |
2,106 | 19810_book_2,_parts_4-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Parts IV - VII Part IV Lena Lingard suddenly enters the story, and she appears to be familiar to Jim and Antonia. She has a reputation among the farmers for things that are not her fault, and the narrator shares some of that reputation. Her father made her herd the cattle, and standing out among the cows with a ragged... | [
"\"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.... |
2,107 | 19810_book_2,_parts_8-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Parts VIII - XII Part VIII Spring comes, and the Harling children, with Antonia and Jim among them, enjoy breaking the ground for their small garden. Then rumor spreads that someone will be opening a dancing pavilion in Black Hawk. Jim encounters them setting up, and he finds that they travel from town to town, leaving... | [
"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... |
2,098 | 19810_book_3,_parts_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book III: Lena Lingard Parts I - IV Part I Jim begins his studies at the University of Nebraska, and he falls under the care of Gaston Cleric, an inspiring Latin scholar. The University is only a few years old at the time, and there are no dormitories. Jim rents a room from an old couple in Lincoln, and his bedroom 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... |
2,099 | 19810_book_4,_parts_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book IV: The Pioneer Woman's Story Parts I - IV Part I Jim returns from Harvard, before entering law school, to find that some things have not changed in Black Hawk. Frances has married, and she and her husband now run the Harling family business in Black Hawk. Antonia, however, has suffered a disgrace. She left to ma... | [
"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_book_5,_parts_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book V: Cuzak's Boys Parts I - III Part I Twenty years have passed, and Jim hears through Lena Lingard and Tiny Soderball that Antonia is married, and that she has not picked the best possible man. Though he kept his old promise to visit her home town in Bohemia, take pictures, and send them to her, Jim has not gone to... | [
"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... |
2,108 | 3420_chapter_i:_the_rights_and_involved_duties_of_mankind_considered | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft begins by explaining that she is going to start with some basic principles and ask several simple questions. These questions may lead to truths, but these results are often contradicted by people's words and conduct. Reason is what gives man preeminence over brute creatures, and passions were instilled i... | [
"In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to\nfirst principles in search of the most simple truths, and to\ndispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To\nclear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions, and\nthe answers will probably appear as unequivocal as t... |
2,109 | 3420_chapter_ii:_the_prevailing_opinion_of_a_sexual_character_discussed | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Many arguments have been put forth to justify man's tyranny over woman and explain how women are unable to attain virtue due to their insufficient strength. However, Wollstonecraft repeats, if women have souls then there should be no fundamental difference between men and women in pursuing and attaining virtue. Men com... | [
"To account for, and excuse the tyranny of man, many ingenious\narguments have been brought forward to prove, that the two sexes,\nin the acquirement of virtue, ought to aim at attaining a very\ndifferent character: or, to speak explicitly, women are not\nallowed to have sufficient strength of mind to acquire what... |
2,110 | 3420_chapter_iii:_the_same_subject_continued | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | People of genius, Wollstonecraft writes, tend to ignore and disregard their health as they pursue their calling. People assume such people are weak and naturally have a delicate constitution, but strength of mind is usually accompanied by strength of body because there is a "natural soundness of constitution." Shakespe... | [
"Bodily strength from being the distinction of heroes is now sunk\ninto such unmerited contempt, that men as well as women, seem to\nthink it unnecessary: the latter, as it takes from their feminine\ngraces, and from that lovely weakness, the source of their undue\npower; and the former, because it appears inimica... |
2,111 | 3420_chapter_iv:_observations_on_the_state_of_degradation_to_which_woman_is_reduced_by_various_causes | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Women are rendered weak by men and by circumstances, Wollstonecraft repeats. They are like slaves in that they only live for the present moment and finally despise that freedom which they never try to attain. Since women are denied genius and rationality, there is little other way to characterize intellect. Man was not... | [
"That woman is naturally weak, or degraded by a concurrence of\ncircumstances is, I think, clear. But this position I shall simply\ncontrast with a conclusion, which I have frequently heard fall from\nsensible men in favour of an aristocracy: that the mass of mankind\ncannot be any thing, or the obsequious slaves... |
2,112 | 3420_chapter_v:_animadversions_on_some_writers_who_have_rendered_women_objects_of_pity,_bordering_on_contempt | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft discusses several authors whose work she deplores for its depiction of women as weak and pitiful. She begins with Rousseau, whose character of Sophia in his novel Emile exemplifies the most deleterious traits a woman could possess. Rousseau's views on women are, as Wollstonecraft sees them: women should ... | [
"The opinions speciously supported, in some modern publications on\nthe female character, and education, which have given the tone to\nmost of the observations made, in a more cursory manner, on the\nsex, remain now to be examined.",
"SECTION 5.1.",
"I shall begin with Rousseau, and give a sketch of the charact... |
2,113 | 3420_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The insufficient education women receive, coupled with their subordinate status in society, render them defected. Early associations and ideas tend to have a determinate effect upon their character. Acquiring knowledge, on the positive side, offers a great advantage. The association of ideas is either habitual or insta... | [
"Educated in the enervating style recommended by the writers on whom\nI have been animadverting; and not having a chance, from their\nsubordinate state in society, to recover their lost ground, is it\nsurprising that women every where appear a defect in nature? Is it\nsurprising, when we consider what a determinat... |
2,114 | 3420_chapters_8-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft addresses behavior and reputation and how such things can undermine a woman's morality. Women are taught very early to develop artificial behavior. They do not indulge in truths but master the art of lies and platitudes. Many do not exercise their own minds. Morality is thoroughly undermined in the femal... | [
"It has long since occurred to me, that advice respecting behaviour,\nand all the various modes of preserving a good reputation, which\nhave been so strenuously inculcated on the female world, were\nspecious poisons, that incrusting morality eat away the substance.\nAnd, that this measuring of shadows produced a fa... |
2,115 | 3420_chapters_10-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When parents govern their children; they can tend to tyranny and relish power without restraint. If reason were to become the rule of duty in life, however, such tyrants would have cause to tremble. Some view parental affection as a "pretext to tyrannize when it can be done without impunity, for only good and wise men ... | [
"Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of\nperverse self-love; for we have not, like the French two terms\n(L'amour propre, L'amour de soi meme) to distinguish the pursuit of\na natural and reasonable desire, from the ignorant calculations of\nweakness. Parents often love their children in the m... |
2,116 | 3420_chapter_xii:_on_national_education | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft argues that education must become a grand national concern. Children should be encouraged to expand their faculties and think for themselves, and this can only be done by putting children together and educating them on the same subjects. When youth are educated alone, they never acquire that frankness an... | [
"The good effects resulting from attention to private education will\never be very confined, and the parent who really puts his own hand\nto the plow, will always, in some degree be disappointed, till\neducation becomes a grand national concern. A man cannot retire\ninto a desert with his child, and if he did, he ... |
2,117 | 3420_chapter_xiii:_some_instances_of_the_folly_which_the_ignorance_of_women_generates;_with_concluding_reflections_on_the_moral_improvement_that_a_revolution_in_female_manners_might_naturally_be_expected_to_produce | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There are plenty of follies particular to women, and Wollstonecraft explains that her goal here is to point out those follies most harmful to women's moral character. She divides this chapter into smaller sections on specific topics. In the first section she calls attention to people who prey on women by predicting the... | [
"There are many follies, in some degree, peculiar to women: sins\nagainst reason, of commission, as well as of omission; but all\nflowing from ignorance or prejudice, I shall only point out such as\nappear to be injurious to their moral character. And in\nanimadverting on them, I wish especially to prove, that th... |
2,108 | 3420_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | If we're going to make a solid argument for anything, Wollstonecraft says, we need to begin at the very beginning at look at our most basic assumptions. Her first assumption is that the power of Reason is what places humankind above the rest of the natural world. Her second biggest assumption is that virtue and moral g... | [
"In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to\nfirst principles in search of the most simple truths, and to\ndispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To\nclear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions, and\nthe answers will probably appear as unequivocal as t... |
2,109 | 3420_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There are many men who have argued over the ages that women don't have enough mental strength to become morally good on their own: they need the guidance of men. But Wollstonecraft believes that if women have souls, then they must have the same rational powers as men. The only other option is for men to claim that wome... | [
"To account for, and excuse the tyranny of man, many ingenious\narguments have been brought forward to prove, that the two sexes,\nin the acquirement of virtue, ought to aim at attaining a very\ndifferent character: or, to speak explicitly, women are not\nallowed to have sufficient strength of mind to acquire what... |
2,110 | 3420_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft opens this chapter by saying that bodily strength is so unnecessary in modern society that people have even started to look down on it. After all, we all know the stereotypes about how body builders are a bunch of dumb meatheads. Wollstonecraft wants to point out how unfair this kind of judgment is, thou... | [
"Bodily strength from being the distinction of heroes is now sunk\ninto such unmerited contempt, that men as well as women, seem to\nthink it unnecessary: the latter, as it takes from their feminine\ngraces, and from that lovely weakness, the source of their undue\npower; and the former, because it appears inimica... |
2,111 | 3420_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some men will argue that women shouldn't be educated because they'll start striving for things society will never give them. But this is the same argument given for why common people shouldn't be allowed to vote in an election--because this'll make them want more power in society and they should just shut up and know t... | [
"That woman is naturally weak, or degraded by a concurrence of\ncircumstances is, I think, clear. But this position I shall simply\ncontrast with a conclusion, which I have frequently heard fall from\nsensible men in favour of an aristocracy: that the mass of mankind\ncannot be any thing, or the obsequious slaves... |
2,112 | 3420_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft tells us that she's going to devote this chapter of Vindication to examining and critiquing all the wrong things that men have written about women and women's education in her time. She'll start her critique by looking at her #1 enemy, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau believes that women should be weak an... | [
"The opinions speciously supported, in some modern publications on\nthe female character, and education, which have given the tone to\nmost of the observations made, in a more cursory manner, on the\nsex, remain now to be examined.",
"SECTION 5.1.",
"I shall begin with Rousseau, and give a sketch of the charact... |
2,118 | 3420_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter deals mostly with the disastrous effects that a bad early-life education can have on women. Wollstonecraft was smart enough to know that the first years of life tend to be the ones that form our character. That's why she wants to make sure that we use these years to give every child the best opportunity to... | [
"Educated in the enervating style recommended by the writers on whom\nI have been animadverting; and not having a chance, from their\nsubordinate state in society, to recover their lost ground, is it\nsurprising that women every where appear a defect in nature? Is it\nsurprising, when we consider what a determinat... |
2,119 | 3420_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | What would a book about the rights of women be without a chapter about modesty? During Wollstonecraft's time, modesty was one of the greatest qualities a woman could have, since society was fond of women who kept quiet when men were talking. Wollstonecraft wasn't too happy about that, though. For starters, Wollstonecra... | [
"Modesty! Sacred offspring of sensibility and reason! true delicacy\nof mind! may I unblamed presume to investigate thy nature, and\ntrace to its covert the mild charm, that mellowing each harsh\nfeature of a character, renders what would otherwise only inspire\ncold admiration--lovely! Thou that smoothest the wr... |
2,120 | 3420_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter is all about people who look after their public reputations more than their souls. This is something Wollstonecraft finds in both genders, not just women. Wollstonecraft is disgusted by how many women think that having a good reputation is the same thing as being a morally good person. One of the reasons w... | [
"It has long since occurred to me, that advice respecting behaviour,\nand all the various modes of preserving a good reputation, which\nhave been so strenuously inculcated on the female world, were\nspecious poisons, that incrusting morality eat away the substance.\nAnd, that this measuring of shadows produced a fa... |
2,121 | 3420_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, Wollstonecraft attacks all the social problems that come from inequality in society and from wealth. For her, people who have a lot of wealth get a lot of respect that they don't really deserve. Only people who have virtue should get respect. Wollstonecraft insists that unless there is more equality in... | [
">From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned\nfountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such\na dreary scene to the contemplative mind. For it is in the most\npolished society that noisome reptiles and venomous serpents lurk\nunder the rank herbage; and there is voluptuousness p... |
2,122 | 3420_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft thinks that a parent's affection for their children is actually just a blind form of self-obsession. In other words, parents who think their kids are perfect are thinking, deep down, that they are perfect. Mary also refers back to her earlier argument about parents being like tyrants, demanding blind obe... | [
"Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of\nperverse self-love; for we have not, like the French two terms\n(L'amour propre, L'amour de soi meme) to distinguish the pursuit of\na natural and reasonable desire, from the ignorant calculations of\nweakness. Parents often love their children in the m... |
2,123 | 3420_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For some reason, says Wollstonecraft, humanity is prone to laziness when it comes to thinking. No one likes to have to justify any decisions. They just want to act on habit, tradition, and authority so they won't have to think too much about anything. Many parents are not willing to earn their children's respect. They ... | [
"There seems to be an indolent propensity in man to make\nprescription always take place of reason, and to place every duty\non an arbitrary foundation. The rights of kings are deduced in a\ndirect line from the King of kings; and that of parents from our\nfirst parent.",
"Why do we thus go back for principles t... |
2,116 | 3420_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft firmly believes that the government should create some sort of public school system where children from all walks of life come together and learn. She would turn out to be pretty right-on about this, because what she's describing here is a blueprint for our modern school system. Wollstonecraft doesn't ap... | [
"The good effects resulting from attention to private education will\never be very confined, and the parent who really puts his own hand\nto the plow, will always, in some degree be disappointed, till\neducation becomes a grand national concern. A man cannot retire\ninto a desert with his child, and if he did, he ... |
2,117 | 3420_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wollstonecraft decides that she wants to close Vindication with a discussion of some of the faults that are most common to women. As you can imagine, she attributes most of these faults to a lack of education. Here, Wollstonecraft directly accuses her women readers of being the cause of their own oppression, because so... | [
"There are many follies, in some degree, peculiar to women: sins\nagainst reason, of commission, as well as of omission; but all\nflowing from ignorance or prejudice, I shall only point out such as\nappear to be injurious to their moral character. And in\nanimadverting on them, I wish especially to prove, that th... |
2,124 | 244_part_i,_chapter_i:_mr._sherlock_holmes | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens with Watson giving a first-person narrative about the contemporary events in his life. He explains that he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1878 from the University of London but was immediately assigned to wartime duties as Assistant Surgeon and sent to Bombay. He then traveled to Candahar. Th... | [
"IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the\nUniversity of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course\nprescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there,\nI was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant\nSurgeon. The regiment was statione... |
2,125 | 244_part_i,_chapter_ii:_the_science_of_deduction | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson narrates that he and Holmes were pleased with their new rooms and living arrangement. Holmes was not difficult to live with, as he had regular hours and was often out. He did have occasional bouts of lethargy and immobility, which Watson believed were not related to drugs because of the man's "temperance and cle... | [
"WE met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B,\n[5] Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They\nconsisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large\nairy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad\nwindows. So desirable in every way were ... |
2,126 | 244_part_i,_chapter_iii:_the_lauriston_gardens_mystery | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson was shocked by Holmes' deductive powers; his respect for the man grew immensely. Upon request, Holmes explained to Watson how he had ascertained the man at the door was a retired Marine sergeant. He then turned his attention to the letter and excitedly announced that he was wrong about the dearth of crime in Lon... | [
"I CONFESS that I was considerably startled by this fresh proof of the\npractical nature of my companion's theories. My respect for his powers\nof analysis increased wondrously. There still remained some lurking\nsuspicion in my mind, however, that the whole thing was a pre-arranged\nepisode, intended to dazzle me,... |
2,127 | 244_part_i,_chapter_iv:_what_john_rance_had_to_tell | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson and Holmes left Lauriston Gardens around 1pm; Holmes mailed a telegram and the two men drove to the home of John Rance. Along the way Holmes explained to Watson how he had observed the multiple horses' hooves, the height of the murderer, and his age. He also offered the fact that he knew the writing on the wall ... | [
"IT was one o'clock when we left No. 3, Lauriston Gardens. Sherlock\nHolmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a\nlong telegram. He then hailed a cab, and ordered the driver to take us\nto the address given us by Lestrade.",
"\"There is nothing like first hand evidence,\" he remarked; \"... |
2,128 | 244_part_i,_chapter_v:_our_advertisement_brings_a_visitor | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Holmes and Watson returned to the house, Watson laid down to take a nap as his mind was tumultuous after the events of the morning. He meditated on the grotesque visage of the dead man and almost thanked the murderer for ridding the world of such a clearly malignant man. Of course, he did recognize that "justice m... | [
"OUR morning's exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was\ntired out in the afternoon. After Holmes' departure for the concert, I\nlay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours' sleep.\nIt was a useless attempt. My mind had been too much excited by all that\nhad occurred, and the st... |
2,129 | 244_part_i,_chapter_vi:_tobias_gregson_shows_what_he_can_do | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning Watson narrated how many of the local papers put forth theories about the "Brixton Mystery," as they deemed it. Many believed the crime was political in nature, perhaps with roots in the Liberal Administration or the Socialists. Holmes scoffed that Lestrade and Gregson were not very effective detective... | [
"THE papers next day were full of the \"Brixton Mystery,\" as they termed\nit. Each had a long account of the affair, and some had leaders upon it\nin addition. There was some information in them which was new to me. I\nstill retain in my scrap-book numerous clippings and extracts bearing\nupon the case. Here is a ... |
2,130 | 244_part_i,_chapter_vii:_light_in_the_darkness | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All three men were utterly dumbfounded by Lestrade's pronouncement that Stangerson was murdered. Lestrade sat down, and Holmes asked him to tell of what he had discovered. Lestrade began by explaining that he was sure Stangerson had been involved in the murderer of Drebber, and set about figuring out more about him. It... | [
"THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so\nunexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered. Gregson sprang\nout of his chair and upset the remainder of his whiskey and water. I\nstared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his\nbrows drawn down over his ... |
2,131 | 244_part_ii,_chapter_i:_on_the_great_alkali_plain | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part Two opens with a description of the vast, uninhabitable region of America that stretches from the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, the Yellowstone River to the Colorado. It is a massive, uninhabited desert filled with "barrenness, inhospitality, and misery." It is covered with patches of alkali and offers no evidence of... | [
"IN the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies\nan arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a\nbarrier against the advance of civilisation. From the Sierra Nevada to\nNebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado\nupon the south, is a region o... |
2,132 | 244_part_ii,_chapter_ii:_the_flower_of_utah | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Mormons finally reach their promised land, Utah, after many trials and travails that included "the savage man, and the savage beast, hunger, thirst fatigue, and disease -every impediment which nature could place in the way..." Young was a capable administrator as well as a religious leader, and the settlement began... | [
"THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured\nby the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. From the\nshores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains\nthey had struggled on with a constancy almost unparalleled in history.\nThe savage man, and the s... |
2,133 | 244_part_ii,_chapter_iii:_john_ferrier_talks_with_the_prophet | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three weeks later, John Ferrier found himself thinking about his daughter's betrothal; he was sad to see her get married and leave him, but happy for her at the same time. He reflected upon his personal, secret vow to never allow Lucy to marry a Mormon. He could never voice that vow, however, as the Mormons were very s... | [
"THREE weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had\ndeparted from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier's heart was sore within him\nwhen he thought of the young man's return, and of the impending loss of\nhis adopted child. Yet her bright and happy face reconciled him to\nthe arrangement more than any argume... |
2,134 | 244_part_ii,_chapter_iv:_a_flight_for_life | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day Ferrier gave the message to Hope to an acquaintance who was setting out for Nevada, stressing the urgency of the contents. When he returned to his home he saw that two young men were in his sitting room. One had a long pale face and the other was "a bull-necked youth with coarse, bloated features." The for... | [
"ON the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon Prophet,\nJohn Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having found his\nacquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains, he entrusted him\nwith his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told the young man of the\nimminent danger which threatened them, ... |
2,135 | 244_part_ii,_chapter_v:_the_avenging_angels | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The travelers continued through the treacherous wilderness even though they were exhausted. Hope pressed the Ferriers onward, exhorting them to remember that their enemies were no doubt already on their tail. They saw no one, however, and hoped that they would make it out of the mountains safely. The afternoon of the s... | [
"ALL night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular\nand rock-strewn paths. More than once they lost their way, but Hope's\nintimate knowledge of the mountains enabled them to regain the track\nonce more. When morning broke, a scene of marvellous though savage\nbeauty lay before them. In every ... |
2,136 | 244_part_ii,_chapter_vi:_a_continuation_of_the_reminiscences_of_john_watson_md | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once the prisoner found himself powerless, he stopped resisting and told his captors that he would walk down to the cab and would willingly get in. The men were surprised at his attitude, as well as his massively, powerfully-built frame. The prisoner was brought to the police headquarters and the name of the prisoner w... | [
"OUR prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently indicate any\nferocity in his disposition towards ourselves, for on finding himself\npowerless, he smiled in an affable manner, and expressed his hopes that\nhe had not hurt any of us in the scuffle. \"I guess you're going to take\nme to the police-station,\" he... |
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