![]() ![]() ![]() Quote 6: Jim realizes that Antonia is "most comfortable only when we were tucked down on the baked earth, in the full blaze of the sun". Quote 5: The country that Jim first found anxious now "seemed to the roads to freedom". Shimerda "looked like ashes", as if "something from which all the warmth and light had died out". Shimerda is "calm" and "skilled", but also he realizes with a sinking heart, that Mr. Quote 3: Antonia, the eldest daughter, is a striking-looking girl, with eyes that were "big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood". Quote 2: The well-preserved garden, full of flowers and vegetables, assures him that humans, when they die, "become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge". Quote 1: When talking about their childhood, the two men frequently mention their old friend, Antonia Shimerda, "who seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood". ![]()
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