https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce Why should Will Cather be honored ? en-us 2021-12-22 15:41:15 UTC 2023-03-28 14:55:39 UTC hello@padlet.com eo44425 https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1960769428 "When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord."

                                                                                - Willa Cather

I think this passage portrays Willa's view on life she knew that her passion was writing. This affected her readers greatly because the way Willa wrote was so descriptive you could feel her passion that laid beyond the writing that it was almost like you were there standing next to her watching everything.]]> 2021-12-22 15:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1960769428 eo44425 https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1960877624 . Willa Cather was a well know novelist , author , and poet.
. Willa grew up in Black Creek Valley, Virginia , but at the age of nine moved to Webster County, Nebraska to go live with her brother Charles's  family.
. Her family could only manage farming in Black Creek for a year due to  the tough climate of the great plains.
. Willa encountered her love for writing after growing up surrounded with story's and dealing with a tough childhood.
. Willa graduated from the college of Nebraska with high marks. 
. One of Willa's most well know novels is "My Antonia" which was published the year of 1918.
.   "My Antonia" is a great example of one of the many thing Willa was best known for being painting a picture in the readers mind of life on the great plains.
. Willa oversaw hundred maybe thousands of European and Russian immigrants flood into Nebraska looking for a job on the Great Plains.  
. Willa Cather's work highlights Westward Expansion because she herself lived through farming the tough land. She also over saw hundred of immigrants working day and night sometimes with little to no breaks.
 
 ]]> 2021-12-22 17:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1960877624 eo44425 https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1960883053 "Presently we saw a curious thing: There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disc rested on the high fields against the horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was. On some upland farm, a plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out against the sun, was exactly contained within the circle of the disk; the handles, the tongue, the share—black against the molten red. There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun.
   Even while we whispered about it, our vision disappeared; the ball dropped and dropped until the red tip went beneath the earth. The fields below us were dark, the sky was growing pale, and that forgotten plough had sunk back to its own littleness somewhere on the prairie."

This quote on page 4 of "My Antonia" outlines her descriptive writing and paints a clear picture of what she lived through in the form of a novel.]]> 2021-12-22 17:14:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1960883053 eo44425 https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1968016752 "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

- Willa Cather

In my opinion this quote goes hand-in-hand with Westward Expansion because Willa learn't from good experiences but she also learn't a lot from the harder times. Both times her writing got stronger and her story's grew bigger. ]]> 2021-12-29 19:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1968016752 eo44425 https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1969050195 . Willa's writing went deep diving into how tough life truly was on the Great Plains Willa saw first hand what life was like for settlers she herself had to deal with adjustment a whole new life style in fact. 

.  Willa's experiences on the Great Plains go hand in hand with Westward Expansion as she saw settler's arrive in the great plains and she witnessed immigrants coming in from all over Europe and Russia.


.   Sometimes Willa herself oversaw men women and children go multiple hours in boiling heat or well below freezing temperatures; sometimes with little to no food or water.



]]> 2021-12-30 18:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1969050195 eo44425 https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1978800649 . Willa worked in Pittsburgh as a copy editor and music & drama editor for the Pittsburgh Leader.

. My Antonia ( published 1918 ) and O'Pioneers ( published 1913 ) are known to be one of her best accomplishments for her portrayal of living on the frontier.


. Willa published one particular poem in 1903 called April Twilights that is very well known for it literature. 

. Willa was able to publish well over five books in the first five years of her life as a Author, novelist and poet.

. Willa was the  eldest of seven children, Willa Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia in 1873. 

.When Cather was nine years old, her family moved to Webster County, Nebraska.

. After a year and a half, the family moved to the county of Red Cloud, where Cather lived until the beginning of her college years at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln,1890.

. After Cather graduated in 1895 she worked as a journalist and later an english teacher for a couple of hours before becoming a full time author. ]]> 2022-01-06 14:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1978800649 eo44425 https://padlet.com/eo44425/l1g6w0d7w3zc55ce/wish/1978869735 Web Site | "About Willa Cather." Willa Cather Foundation, https://www.willacather.org/
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