Which theme is best shown in this passage from My Antonia?Those girls had grown up in the first bitter-hard times, and had got little schooling themselves. But the younger brothers and sisters, for whom they made such sacrifices and who have had “advantages,” never seem to me, when I meet them now, half as interesting or as well educated. The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.
Answer
A
A good education is the key to success.
B
People are better off farming than going to school.
C
Women’s strength helps immigrant families to succeed.
D
Poverty leads people to have uninteresting lives.
Explanation
The passage praises the older immigrant girls, who endured hardship and sacrificed so their younger siblings could have more advantages. Despite receiving little formal schooling, they learned from work, poverty, and family experience, which made them observant and interesting. This best supports the theme that women’s strength helps immigrant families succeed; the passage does not claim farming is better than school.
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