My Ántonia, Chapter 10 — streszczenie

Co się wydarza

1. Reports of scarce food prompt Grandmother to pack provisions and visit the Shimerdas with Jim and Jake.
2. Mrs. Shimerda displays their spoiled potatoes and scant flour, then breaks down when Jake brings the food.
3. Mr. Shimerda shows Grandmother the small earthen recess where Ántonia and Yulka sleep.
4. Through Ántonia, Mr. Shimerda explains their expenses, remaining money, and plans for farming and a new house.
5. Mrs. Shimerda gives Grandmother dried food from Bohemia, and Grandmother and Jake discuss their duty toward struggling neighbors.
6. Grandmother burns the unfamiliar gift, but Jim tastes a piece and identifies it retrospectively as dried mushrooms.

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