"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
The effect that the setting has on Antonia is that it depresses her. The setting depresses her. It reminds her of when her father died. The setting upsets her, changing the way she sees everything around her.
My bedroom might be the only place I can go when I am having a bad day. It is my home it gives me a sense of security. A place of comfort
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