In this section of the novel, Jim and his family make the transition from country to city. Grandmother gets Ántonia a place to work with the Harlings, who live next door to them in Black Hawk, so she doesn't have to be hired out again for the fall. Steavens, however, tells them news of Ántonia, whom her brother hires out like a man and whom everyone liked. Country neighbors coming to town would generally stay with them at their home, although Ambrosch only came alone, wouldn't stay long, and wouldn't tell them much about his family. Soon the Burden family feels like town people, and Jim learns boyish ways at school. Jake and Otto help the Burdens move to the town, and Jim only hears of them once after that, when they are working in a mine.īlack Hawk is a nice, clean little town with a river that reminds Jim of the country. Otto decides to go West, and Jake follows him, even though the Burdens think he is too kind and trusting to live on the frontier. The Burdens sell their farm to the Widow Steavens and buy a house at the very edge of town. After Jim lives in the country for three years, his grandfather, who feels like he is getting too old and that Jim needs to go to school, decided to move to Black Hawk.
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