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** There's something rather tearjerking about the last line of the song, even though it's not sad ''per se''. But in context, and generally considering what people who emigrated left behind and what they faced, as well as everything that the word ''home'' entails, it feels very touching.
--->'''Kristina''': (to her son Johan) Yes, we will take you to a place where you can stay. You will soon get to come home.
--->'''Kristina''': (to her son Johan) Yes, we will take you to a place where you can stay. You will soon get to come home.
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* When Kristina is so ill from scurvy that she might die and Karl Oskar keeps watch by her side through the night. The things they say to each other and the guilt that plagues him are gut-wrenching.
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* When Kristina is so ill from scurvy that she might die and Karl Oskar keeps watch by her side through the night. The things they say to each other and the guilt that plagues him are gut-wrenching.heart-wrenching.
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** It was also quite the TearJerker to realise that [[spoiler:Kristina was everything to Karl Oskar yet he got to spend less than twenty years with her and dies at the age of 67. That's almost fifty years without her.]]
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** It was also quite the TearJerker to realise that [[spoiler:Kristina was everything to Karl Oskar yet he got to spend less than twenty years with her and dies at the age of 67. That's almost fifty forty years without her.]]
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* ''Ljusa kvällar om våren'' (''Bright Evenings in Springtime'') where Kristina sings about how homesick she is.
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* ''Ljusa kvällar om våren'' (''Bright Evenings in Springtime'') where Kristina sings about how homesick she is.is.
-->"''The sorrow that I'm feeling, no one here can understand. Lord take me back, let me see what I so badly miss''."
-->"''Our children shall never feel the pain and anguish of longing. No clear images from the past shall they see''."
-->"''The sorrow that I'm feeling, no one here can understand. Lord take me back, let me see what I so badly miss''."
-->"''Our children shall never feel the pain and anguish of longing. No clear images from the past shall they see''."
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* ''Ljusa kvällar om våren'' (''Bright Evenings in Springtime'') where Kristina sings about how homesick she is.
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* ''Ljusa kvällar om våren'' (''Bright Evenings in Springtime'') where Kristina sings about how homesick she is.
-->"''As his eyes slowly faded, the old watch fell from his hand, and Kristina, gold had turned to sand...''"
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-->"''As his eyes slowly faded, the old watch fell from his hand, and Kristina, gold had turned to sand...''"
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* ''Ljusa kvällar om våren'' (''Bright Evenings in Springtime'') where Kristina sings about how homesick she is.
* ''Stanna'' (''Stay'').
* ''Gold Can Turn To Sand''.
* ''Stanna'' (''Stay'').
* ''Gold Can Turn To Sand''.
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* ''Ljusa kvällar om våren'' (''Bright Evenings in Springtime'') where Kristina sings about how homesick she is.
* During the journey across the ocean the pregnant Kristina has a difficult time keeping down food, both due to morning sickness and due to sea sickness. She becomes ill with scurvy and Karl Oskar sits vigil by her side through the night, begging her not to leave him, in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DydvoIQhOg ''Stanna''(''Stay'').
(''Stay'')]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzsUxUhBCtE ''Gold Can Turn ToSand''.Sand'']]. Robert's signature song, in which he reveals to Kristina the fate of his best friend Arvid.
* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYxdCgNrmGI ''Hemma'' (Home)]] which Kristina sings to her children upon arriving in America. She has been in America a mere few hours and is determined to find a place to settle and build a home for her children, but still her heart yearns for Sweden and her partens, whom she knows she will never see again.
* During the journey across the ocean the pregnant Kristina has a difficult time keeping down food, both due to morning sickness and due to sea sickness. She becomes ill with scurvy and Karl Oskar sits vigil by her side through the night, begging her not to leave him, in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DydvoIQhOg ''Stanna''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzsUxUhBCtE ''Gold Can Turn To
* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYxdCgNrmGI ''Hemma'' (Home)]] which Kristina sings to her children upon arriving in America. She has been in America a mere few hours and is determined to find a place to settle and build a home for her children, but still her heart yearns for Sweden and her partens, whom she knows she will never see again.
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* The way Max von Sydow and Liv Ullman play [[spoiler:Kristina's death scene]] breaks the heart.
** As does, for that matter, von Sydow's performance in the scene where Kristina is bleeding from every orifice due to scurvy.
** As does, for that matter, von Sydow's performance in the scene where Kristina is bleeding from every orifice due to scurvy.
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* The way Max von Sydow Creator/MaxVonSydow and Liv Ullman play [[spoiler:Kristina's death scene]] breaks the heart.
** As does, for that matter, [[Creator/MaxVonSydow vonSydow's Sydow]]'s performance in the scene where Kristina is bleeding from every orifice due to scurvy.
** As does, for that matter, [[Creator/MaxVonSydow von
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* The entire chapter about Starkodder the ox.
* Kristina's despair when she has her crisis of faith.
* Kristina's despair when she has her crisis of faith.
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-->"''Home'' - to Kristina, this encompassed all that she was never to see again."
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* In ''Unto a Good Land'' there's a chapter where Karl Oskar gets lost in the woods on his way home from Stillwater where he went to buy flour so they can have bread on the table. It's mid-winter and one point he passes out from cold and exhaustion and has a rather disturbing dream in which his father reproaches him for the decision to emigrate. This quote from when he answers his father is heartbreaking:
-->"It wasn't because I was stubborn and wouldn't listen to you, nor was I dissatisfied. That you must remember! I didn't emigrate because of this, do you hear me, Father and Mother? ''I didn't want to make any more coffins''. No coffins for my little ones. Remember that! That was why I emigrated."
-->"It wasn't because I was stubborn and wouldn't listen to you, nor was I dissatisfied. That you must remember! I didn't emigrate because of this, do you hear me, Father and Mother? ''I didn't want to make any more coffins''. No coffins for my little ones. Remember that! That was why I emigrated."
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* When Kristina is so ill from scurvy that she might die and Karl Oskar keeps watch by her side through the night. The things they say to each other and the guilt that plagues him are gut-wrenching.
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-->"''As his eyes slowly faded, the old watch fell from his hand, and Kristina, gold had turned to sand...''"
