O' Pioneers! By: Willa Carther

After reading the novel, O Pioneers! it was hard to judge whether it was a tragedy or a triumph. The only way I see it as a tragedy is that Emil and Maria died. I knew, since page six of the book that they were going to be together. It kind of broke my heart to see later on that she had married someone else. But when her and Emil got shot, I thought it may finish as a tragedy. But overall, I would see it as a triumph in the way that the Bergsons finally got what they wanted out of their land. It made them rich. Also, Alexandra and Carl finally married. And being that the whole novel was basically based on the land, they were triumphant in getting what they risked, what they longed for.
Families on the Great Plains faced many hardships such as weather and the tending of fields. In the novel's first sentence, it establishes the kind of symbolism it will use: "The little town of Hanover was trying not to be blown away," In my opinion, the land broke......

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