Book · Book · 1915
Pass it on
The Song of the Lark
63Watch it awake.
Ambition, a particular Western town, and the cost of a gift that will not fit the house.
The review
Thea Kronborg is the American story of a particular gift that a small ethnic town can grow and cannot keep. Cather does not despise Moonstone. She also does not lie that Thea could have become what she became in the parlor. That tension belongs on this shelf beside the books that say stay.
Read it after O Pioneers! so you have both decisions in the house: the one who keeps the farm, and the one who spends the town on a vocation.
Journal
Keep The Song of the Lark in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 63. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Giants in the Earth
75 instead of 63
Giants in the Earth is still a novel book, and it scores 75 instead of 63. What you gain is industry: Breaking sod is the book.
The eight
- 8Industry
Practice is the work. Cather does not pretend a gift arrives without it.
- 5Household
She leaves the family house. The leaving is not free.
- 5Piety
The father's ministry is the world she starts in and cannot stay in.
- 7Courage
She risks poverty and ridicule for the voice.
- 5Republic
Moonstone is a real kind of town. She needs it and she needs to get out.
- 6Temperance
Desire is large and not sordid. It still consumes the life.
- 8Truth
The town and the train and the immigrant details are exact.
- 6Stewardship
What she hands on is the art, not the household.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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