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O`Pioneers!

Willa Cather's book "O`Pioneers!" takes place on the Divide of Nebraska and uses the location as a theme throughout the novel. In this paper I will be tracing different aspects of this theme throughout the novel. The novel contains many different aspects involving every character in this book. Whether it's Ivar and his traditional "old world values", or Emil representing the "new world values", there are many different aspects of comparing and contrasting in this novel. There are rich and poor people, educated and not, feminism and sexism, I will be covering all aspects presented in this novel.

Ivar was a character in this book that represented old world values. Ivar lived a life that went along easily with his old world values. When we were first introduced to him, he was described as living far from anyone. He had a house next to the river where he would see all different types of birds. "Ivar found contentment in the solitude he had sought out for himself.......

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Approximate Word Count: 1740
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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