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I selected the novel __O Pioneers__ by Willa Cather because i read the back and it seemed like an interesting book. I really didn't need to know anything before i started to read this novel. Before the novel started it talked about how a little boy's cat got caught on the top of a pole in the winter. Once the story started the little boy named Emil was in the little town close to his prairie out west of there, where him and his sister Alexandra went to get some medicine for their father. But in the mean while Emil's cat got chased up a electric pole. Emil couldn't get his cat down. Alexandra knew a boy named Carl very well, and he crawled up the pole and got the cat. They got the medicine and went on their way home to see their father. In the next chapter their father was very ill and was slowly dying. The father was telling his daughter Alex that she was the most responsible kid of all of his. In this section of the story i found out that Emil and Alex also had two more younger brothers named Oscar and Lou and also a mother. At this time in the story Alex was around 19 years old and she was the oldest one. Once her father died she took over the large prairie that her dad once owned. Alex and her brothers were going threw stressful times because the economy was bad. The crops on their prairie farm were not growing like they should have been. Many people started to moved away to like in cheaper city houses to get a local job so the harvest seasons were not very good. Alex was confident to stay at their farm but the boys were on a different trail of ideas. But Alex decided to stay with the boys and sell their farm and buy other peoples old houses to have more room to grow crops. That was the end of the 5th chapter. This story is told by a narrator. The setting of this story is in the prairies awhile back in time. This novel couldn't happen any different because the problems are closely related to the harvesting in the prairies. The first problem in this story is that the father dies and leaves his land to the kids. The author is interesting my because it jumps around and makes me think a lot.