The Burdens celebrate Christmas at home and make presents for each other since they cannot get into town to purchase some. Shimerda becomes depressed after Peter moves away. Jim gets very sick, and Pavel dies, after unburdening his heart with a horrible story from his past. One day during the end of summer, Jim kills a huge snake and impresses Ántonia, who had been treating him with condescension. The Burdens try to help out as much as they can. The Shimerdas are not doing very well in their new country, but they do become friends with two Russian men, Peter and Pavel. Ántonia and Jim instantly become friends, and they spend a lot of time together outdoors, with Jim teaching her English. The oldest daughter Ántonia also comes running up to him, grabs his hand, and they go sprinting into the fields. Shimerda, a shrewish woman who is complaining and demanding the oldest son Ambrosch, who is a stubborn, stingy brute Marek, a mentally challenged boy and Yulka, a young and pretty girl. Shimerda, an educated musician who is very kindly Mrs. Soon the Burdens go to meet their Bohemian neighbors, the Shimerdas, who were forced to pay too much for their farm by the only other Bohemian man in the country, Peter Krajiek.
At this point in the year it is still summer.
Jim enjoys the wide expanses of the frontier, with all its insects, prairie dogs, and vegetation. Jim's grandparents are kindly people with simple religious beliefs and very generous natures. When Jim arrives at the station, he is greeted by Otto Fuchs, an Austrian desperado cowboy. On the same train is a Bohemian family that barely speaks English and that is going to the same place. He has just recently lost both his parents, and he is accompanied by a farmhand named Jake. At the age of ten, Jim Burden travels by cross-country train to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska frontier.
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