Alexandra, however, starts making plans for where she will relocate the hogs.After years of crop failure, many of the Bergson's neighbors are selling out, even if it means taking a loss. This simply confirms Oscar's and Lou's opinion that Ivar deserves the name Crazy Ivar. Crazy Ivar advises her to keep their hogs clean rather than letting them live in filth and to give them fresh, clean water and good food. Alexandra is concerned about their hogs as the hogs of many of their neighbors are dying. But he is known for healing sick animals. For instance, he sleeps in a hammock, believes in killing no living thing and goes barefoot summer and winter. Alexandra and her brothers Oscar and Lou later visit Ivar, known as Crazy Ivar because of his unorthodox views. Alexandra's father is dying, and it is his wish that she run the farm after he is gone. Marie lives in Omaha and is visiting her uncle Joe Tovesky. Later, Alexandra finds Emil in the general store with Marie Tovesky. Alexandra asks her neighbor and friend Carl Linstrum to retrieve the kitten. Part I - The Wild Land edit] On a windy January day in Hanover, Nebraska, Alexandra Bergson is with her five-year-old brother Emil, whose little kitten has climbed a telegraph pole and is afraid to come down. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My ntonia (1918). O Pioneers is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York.
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