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My Antonia 9780140187649 (Characters (Black Hawk Characters (Mrs.…

- - - - Antonia helps him improve his social issues (immigrants)
      - Very close friends with Antonia
      - Intelligent, Introspective young man who responds strongly to the land and the environment he lives in
      - more interested in academics and reflection than in roughhousing
      - A ten year old orphan who moved from virginia to nebraska to live with this grandparents (new beginning, completely different from where he used to live)
        
        parents past away
    - - Jim’s grandfather
      - Josiah is a strongly religious man, silent and given to hard work
    - - Jim’s grandmother
      - Emmaline shows great concern and compassion for the Shimerdas and is a loving maternal figure for Jim.
    - - Otto Fuchs
        
        The Burdens’ hired hand, who looks like a cowboy out of one of Jim’s books but is actually an Austrian immigrant.
        
        Good-natured despite his rough appearance, Otto decides to seek his fortune in the West after the Burdens move to Black Hawk.
      - Jake Marpole
        
        Another hired hand of the Burdens.
        
        Makes the trip from Virginia to Nebraska along with Jim and accompanies Otto out west after the Burdens move to Black Hawk.
        
        Jake has a powerful temper but generally displays a good-natured and even childlike innocence about the world.
  - - - moves to Nebraska from Bohemia with the rest of her family in her early teenage years
      - Intelligent, optimistic, loyal, and kindhearted
      - difficult live after fathers death
      - A bohemian immigrant moving to Nebraska for a better life
        14 years old when she arrives
    - - Not a very happy man
      - Father of antonia
      - Leads the shimerda family
      - Didn't want to leave bohemia
      - Eventually commits suicide
  - - - A Norwegian immigrant’s daughter and a friend of Ántonia’s
      - Lena has a brief liaison with Jim in Black Hawk and a more extended relationship with him in Lincoln
      - own dressmakers shop
      - Lena is pretty and blonde, and craves independence and excitement
      - Refuses to marry and give up her freedom.