Themes in My Antonia

â€Å"We sat looking off the nation over, watching the sun go down. The wavy grass about us was ablaze at this point. The bark of the oaks turned red as copper. There was a sparkle of gold on the earthy colored waterway. Out in the stream the sandbars sparkled like glass, and the light trembled in the willow bushes as though little flares were jumping among them. The breeze sank to tranquility. In the gorge a ringdove grieved mournfully, and some place off in the shrubberies an owl hooted. The young ladies sat lazy, inclining toward each other.The long fingers of the sun contacted their brows. † (Page 159) My Antonia is one of my preferred books due to how it is so graphic. I love the visuals that Cather includes like when she says â€Å"the bark of the oaks turned red as copper,† in light of the fact that you think about that rural shading and how that is the thing that the bark looks likes in view of the dusk. Cather utilizes metaphors like, â€Å"Out in the stream t he sandbars sparkled like glass, and the light trembled in the willow shrubberies as though little blazes were jumping among them. You can truly envision sparkling glass, for the most part as a matter of fact, and how the little mirrors cast valuable twinkles of light on water, and the little blazes hopping around the shrubberies illuminating them and going out when they’ve contacted them. Cather additionally utilizes a representation while depicting the wavy grass by saying that it was ablaze, which is an extraordinary portrayal of how the light from the dusk influenced the grass, making it look ablaze.She utilizes another illustration while portraying the light from the sun, and calls it â€Å"fingers† which contacted the girls’ brows on the grounds that the beams were long and were as though they were touching their faces like a hand may do in a caring signal. You can simply observe the last bits of light the sun radiates connecting with handle and impact the last piece of the Earth that it can before it needs to vanish into the night sky.