Soon though, she would take to exploring the countryside and socializing with the other settlers, most of who were European immigrants that would later manifest as characters in her novels. "As we drove further and further out into the country, I felt a good deal as if we had come to the end of everything-it was a kind of erasure of personality," Cather said of her arrival in the west. After a sheep barn burned down on the property in 1883, the Cathers decided to follow in their extended family's lead and journey west, a decision that would ultimately form the dominant themes represented in Willa Cather's writing.įor eighteen months, the Cathers lived on the Nebraskan Divide, a vast, empty grassland region in Webster County, Nebraska. For the first nine years of her life, Cather lived tranquilly on the farm that her father had inherited from his Irish grandfather, Jasper Cather. 'Ralph, Ralph, get awake! Come down and help me wash the car.The twentieth century writer Willa Sibert Cather was the first of seven children born to Charles and Mary Boak Cather on December 7, 1873, in Back Creek Valley, Virginia. "Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
When the First World War broke out and the United States participated in the conflict, the young man enlisted in the army to flee from his current traditional life, seeking and longing for his freedom. However, the young man will have to drop out of school to run the farm.
Claude works on the family farm while he studies at the university, in search of his own success outside the shelter of his father.Īfter meeting a family of German immigrants, he knows other ways of thinking and points of view. The novel reflects on the simple people of Nebraska and the global impact of World War I.Ĭlaude Wheeler is a young American native of Nebraska, the son of well-to-do farmers, in the first decades of the 20th century. One of Ours is a novel written by Willa Cather and originally published in 1922, for which the author won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
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