Now that we've discussed some of the important passages in the novel, I'd like you to practice generating a thesis statement about your section of the novel. Keeping the quotes you already selected in mind, as well as our discussion, make a claim about what is significant about this section and how the text conveys this importance.
Remember to phrase it as precisely as you can and if it helps, think about answering these questions: What does this section of the text do? What does it say about a particular issue? How does this section of the text do this? Why is this important?
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In this novel, Cather portrays Alexandra's similarities with the land, through constant relationship questions and deep metaphors about that land.
In the novel, Cather presents two very distinct contrasting images of womanhood: Marie, a wife desiring to conform to social norms and Alexandra, an older single woman striving for independence.
It is obvious that physical quarter of the land ownership plays a significant important role in the novel "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather. Thinking about the relationship of the land to its settlers, for Alexandra’s brothers, Lou and Oscar, they think they own the land as they are not only the eldest of Bergson Family but also as mater of course. But for Alexandra, she believes that human’s efforts cannot influence the land or human’s knowledge cannot force it to make a change.
The shooting of Marie and Emil could come as a surprising event to some, when really the death is foreshadowed throughout the text’s details becoming the almost the inevitable result of Carl and Marie’s relationship.
Cather’s writing, in O’Pioneers, emphases an innate ability of the land to shape of its own destiny. It is not necessarily the people who shape it surface, but an underlying fate that carries its occupants along for the ride. With the character of Alexandra, and her sympathies and affection for the land, Cather, gives a voice and a human persona to the expanding frontier.
To understand the importance of the land in this novel, one must examine the ability it has to make one feel lonely and its relationship to love to identify the power it has over the course of a character’s life.
Through Cather's novel, the role of women with in frontier society is a central issue, especially in regard to the desires and aspirations of Marie and Alexandra. It is clear that although Marie and Alexandra have different aspirations in life, they both struggle with an internal conflict in trying to find their role in society.
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