2. I think Jim grows more than she does in thier relationship. Antonia learns to speak english, but Jim grows to like people from all over the world, not caring where they are from. At the begining of the book, Jim doesn't care for people who are not from his own country. When he hears what Antonia's family has to go through, he tells her, "People who don't like this country ought to stay at home … We don't make them come here". At the end of the book, he ends up appreiating and learning what makes Antonia and people like her succesful. "The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten," he explains. "One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers in our county were the first to become prosperous". He sees the valie of a system that isn't his own. At the end of the book, Jim explains to the reader the ways that he has grown. “I knew that I should never be a scholar. I could never lose myself for long among impersonal things. Mental excitement was apt to send me with a rush back to my own naked land and the figures scattered upon it. … I suddenly found myself thinking of the places and people of my own infinitesimal past. …show more content…
They stood out strengthened and simplified now, like the image of the plough against the sun… All those early friends … were so much alive in me that I scarcely stopped to wonder whether they were alive anywhere else, or