Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
The setting of this book greatly impacts the characters. Nebraska weather is very cold and makes living conditions hard on everyone for instance, during Christmas the families couldn't make it to town. So instead they had to make their own gifts with the things they had. Plus they have wagons n when the roads gets covered its hard to navigate where they are going.
Well, our house has is packed full of stuff like a pack rat. I don't like things that ain't organized it makes me aggravated. We have so much stuff including my uncle's dad's belongings everything is just shoved places.
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