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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: advantages over us in the way of an adventurous life.
I was convinced that man's strongest antagonist is the cold.
I admired the cheerful zest with which grandmother went
about keeping us warm and comfortable and well-fed. She
often reminded me, when she was preparing for the return
of the hungry men, that this country was not like Virginia;
and that here a cook had, as she said, `very little to do with.'
On Sundays she gave us as much chicken as we could eat,
and on other days we had ham or bacon or sausage meat.
She baked either pies or cake for us every day, unless, for a change,
she made my favourite pudding, striped with currants and boiled
My Antonia |
