With this introduction, Ántonia Shimerda's story begins and is marked by the changes in the seasons of both life and the prairie. Jim delivers it to her, changing the title to My Ántonia, and thus indicating that the script will be a personal story. Jim has written a memoir about her and the narrator expresses interest in reading the manuscript. Their conversation is a reminiscence about their small hometown of Black Hawk, Nebraska, and a Bohemian girl they both remember named Ántonia Shimerda. The novel begins on a train trip in which the narrator and a childhood friend, Jim Burden, share words about the past.
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