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Course Hero. "O Pioneers! Study Guide." Course Hero. 27 Apr. 2018. Web. 6 June 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/O-Pioneers/>.
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Course Hero. (2018, April 27). O Pioneers! Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved June 6, 2023, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/O-Pioneers/
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Course Hero. "O Pioneers! Study Guide." April 27, 2018. Accessed June 6, 2023. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/O-Pioneers/.
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Course Hero, "O Pioneers! Study Guide," April 27, 2018, accessed June 6, 2023, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/O-Pioneers/.
The Bergson family's dying father tells them Alexandra Bergson will be in charge when he dies.
Part 1, Chapter 2Alexandra Bergson decides to invest in buying more land around their farm.
Part 1, Chapter 5Alexandra Bergson's brothers try to convince her to send Ivar to an asylum.
Part 2, Chapter 3Alexandra Bergson's brothers tell her not to marry Carl Linstrum, who, they say, is after her money.
Part 2, Chapter 10Carl Linstrum tells Alexandra Bergson that he is leaving for Alaska.
Part 2, Chapter 12Emil Bergson returns from Mexico and goes to a church supper with Alexandra Bergson.
Part 4, Chapter 1Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata confess their love, and Emil agrees to leave.
Part 4, Chapter 2Frank Shabata catches Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata together in the orchard and shoots them both.
Part 4, Chapter 7Alexandra Bergson goes to Lincoln, Nebraska, to visit Frank Shabata in prison.
Part 5, Chapter 2Carl Linstrum returns to comfort Alexandra Bergson, and they decide to spend their lives together.
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Part 1, Chapters 1–3 | The town of Hanover is a small town on the Nebraska prairie with an assortment of houses, a small downtown street, and... Read More |
Part 1, Chapters 4–5 | Three years of drought come upon the Divide, and many people are leaving. Carl Linstrum finds Alexandra Bergson in the... Read More |
Part 2, Chapters 1–3 | It has been 16 years since Alexandra Bergson's father passed away, and her mother has also died. Emil Bergson—21 years... Read More |
Part 2, Chapters 4–6 | Carl Linstrum and Alexandra Bergson sit in the garden in the moonlight and talk. Alexandra asks Carl why he's so dissa... Read More |
Part 2, Chapters 7–9 | The narrator explains how Frank Shabata and Marie Shabata (formerly Marie Tovesky) met and fell in love. When Marie wa... Read More |
Part 2, Chapters 10–12 | While Carl Linstrum and Emil Bergson are at the fair, Alexandra Bergson's brothers, Lou Bergson and Oscar Bergson, com... Read More |
Part 3, Chapters 1–2 | The winter is unusually bitter and cold. Mrs. Lee, Lou Bergson's mother-in-law, comes to Alexandra Bergson's for a lon... Read More |
Part 4, Chapters 1–3 | Alexandra Bergson and Emil Bergson go to the French Church for a church supper, and Emil wears an outfit he brought ba... Read More |
Part 4, Chapters 4–6 | Emil Bergson visits Amedee Chevalier and finds his wife, Angelique Chevalier, making pies. She tells him Amedee is in ... Read More |
Part 4, Chapters 7–8 | Frank Shabata comes home and finds Emil Bergson's horse in his stable. He begins to slide into a hazy rage and goes to... Read More |
Part 5, Chapters 1–3 | Alexandra Bergson has left the house early in the morning without telling anyone where she is going. As a storm rolls ... Read More |