All Day Long, Nebraska

At the end of section I, Jim Burden is traveling in the back of a wagon to his grandparents' home in Nebraska. He has traveled all night and has seen "nothing but land - slightly undulating." He expresses his emotions when he says, "I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction....as I looked at the complete dome of heaven, I did not believe that my dead mother and father were wathching me from up there; they would still be looking for me at the sheepfold down by the creek, or along the white road that led up the mountain pastures. I had left even their spirits behind me.... I did not think that I was homesick. If we ever arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between the earth and the sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be" (8). Respond to Jim Burden's analysis of his trip into Nebraska. Choose a specific image or impression and comment on its significance to the story.