Importance of Landscape in My AntoniaIn the book My Antonia, the landscape as well as Jim's reactions to it help us feel all the emotions of the scene. His feelings of loneliness, sadness, fear and happiness are felt through his words and we can get an idea from the descriptions, adding to what we already know. He feels these emotions from the first scenes. All because he wants a home. The feelings we experience when Jim arrives are impressive with hints of loneliness. He arrives in town and is taken to his grandparents. He rides in a cart and as he has trouble sleeping, he tries to look at the ground and sees nothing. This can be seen in the lines: "There was nothing but land: not a country at all but the stuff countries are made of...I felt like the world was being left behind , that we had exceeded the limits. of it, and were beyond the jurisdiction of man. I had never looked up at the sky without there being a familiar mountain ridge against it... I didn't believe that my father and mother were watching me from up there; I was still looking for myself at the sheepfold by the stream,... I had left their spirits behind me... I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be ." (page 11 -12) We see that Jim is in a state of awe. He does not consider this place as a land or a country, but as the constituent elements of such things. He thinks that he is in heaven and not on the planet. He feels like he is in his own universe. The landscape also adds a feeling of solitude. He is looking at the land and there is nothing for him to hold on to so he will know where he is. finds, no mountains or anything. The feelings of awe can also be interpreted as loneliness He looks in wonder at this new land, but he feels so alone He is in the middle of nowhere He also believes. that his parents' spirits won't be there for him I'm sure the fact that his parents are dead upset Jim, but he also thinks that they won't be there for him since he left...