The document summarizes the novel "My Antonia" in three parts. It begins by introducing the main characters, Jim Burdens and Antonia, who become friends in Nebraska. Their childhood is fun until Antonia's father commits suicide, straining their friendship. Years later, Jim goes to school while Antonia works, and they separately experience romance and love, though Antonia's new love leaves her. She returns to Nebraska with a child. Jim visits and promises to return, which he does 20 years later as a lawyer. He finds Antonia married with children and is happy for her. The novel shows that real friends remain so over time and circumstances, and love can come unexpectedly.

1. Reflection
Aside from the themes of “My Antonia “,the novel also talks about friendship,romance and
destiny.The protagonist,Jim Burdens,a ten-year-old boy meets a Bohemian girl upon arriving in
Nebraska with his grandparents.The 2 become friends and find comfort from one another.They
both create their childhood years fun and memorable with the company of each other,until an
unexpected event in Antonia’s life came.Her father commit suicide,the reason why Antonia turned
into a miserable one.The 2 friends, Jim and Antonia,feel cold in their friendship.
Time passes fast. The 2 separate their ways.Jim goes to school in the city while Antonia
works as a housekeeper.While focusing on his studies,Jim also finds time to have dates with Lena,a
common friend by him and Antonia.Meanwhile,Antonia finds someone to love in a local boy.But
Antonia’s new found love doesn’t have a happy ending because she was deserted by the guy days
before their wedding.Yet, Antonia conceive and goes back to Nebraska. Upon hearing the situation
of his friend,Jim visits Antonia and promises her that he will return for her soon.The promise
remains a promise.Twenty years has passed before Jim finally returns and now a lawyer. Antonia
marries and has many children with her husband while Jim chooses to be happy for his friend.
“My Antonia” is a novel which makes its readers realize that whatever life brings,real
friends are still be friends.Nothing can ruin the friendship of people who have genuine love for each
other.Another is that,life is full of romances.There are times that who you think is right for you,is
sometimes not the person who is destined to be with you.Most of the time, love comes to those who
are completely strangers than to those who already comfortable with one another.Lastly,the novel
tells us that everything in this world is destined to someone or something.

2. Reflection
The novel,”Farewell to Arms” focuses on the life of an American ambulance driver on the Italian
front named Lt.Frederic Henry, and his passion for a beautiful English nurse named Catherine
Barkley. She mourns the death of her fiancé from the war last year, and she eagerly enters the
pleasurable diversion, the game of love offers with Henry. Henry, too, is revived by love after the
horror he has seen of war.
The novel shows us the brutality of war- the nonsense reason of its existence.War is just something
that makes both the rivals lost.It is shown in the novel that the use of arms is never a clear solution
to a conflict instead, love should dominate to everyone’s heart.Like what Frederic Henry and
Catherine Barkley did, instead of wasting their lives in the war during their time, they chose to have
a normal life with the company of one another and have their family inspite of the war that
surrounds them.Yes, the protagonists do not have a happy ending, but their actions in the novel
make me think of the great power of love in the lives of everyone. Love doesn’t choose a context to
where it will be felt by people, instead, love is everywhere and anywhere it may be felt.