My Ántonia, Chapter 17: samenvatting

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1. Spring brings pasture fires, and the Shimerdas begin farming from a new house built with neighbors’ help.
2. Jim visits Yulka and Mrs. Shimerda, who questions him about Grandfather’s planting plans.
3. Ántonia returns from plowing and rejects an invitation to school because she needs to help establish the farm.
4. Ántonia cries, asks Jim to share his learning, and seeks his promise to remember her father.
5. At supper, sibling competition and complaints about Grandfather make Jim uncomfortable.
6. Jim describes Ántonia’s constant labor and feels that her growing responsibilities leave little room for their friendship.

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Ántonia’s refusal makes the conflict between schooling and farm labor explicit. Her tears and request for Jim’s knowledge show that this choice does not erase her interest in learning.

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