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Book 2, Chapter 15
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in My Antonia, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
The Immigrant Experience
Friendship
The Prairie
The Past
Innocence and Maturity
Gender
Summary
Analysis
Jim attends university at Lincoln (the capital of Nebraska) and begins to study Latin under a young instructor named Gaston Cleric. He rents a room on the edge of town near the prairie and stays in Lincoln his first summer to take a course in Greek.
Though Jim moves away from Black Hawk, he still tries to maintain a connection to the prairie.
Themes
Jim calls this first year at university a time of "mental awakening." For a while, his past seems less important to him But he knows he will never be a scholar, because he has too much of a connection to the "naked land and the figures scattered upon it."
