A nine-year-old New England girl has to decide whether or not she will help the ornithologist who is searching for the rare white heron.
"A White Heron" and the Question of Minor Literature
Wonderfully descriptive prose from distinguished regionalist writer includes 10 tales dealing with female friendships, poverty, and compassion: "The Town Poor," "Miss Peck’s Promotion," "The Passing of Sister Barsett," and seven more.
He is a threat to her peaceful existence and influences her future life and behaviour. This essay will show how Sylvia’s attitude towards the hunter changes and how Jewett explores the sexual conflict between the two sexes in this story.
She decides to climb the tallest tree in the forest so that she can see the entire countryside, and she finds the heron, just as she had thought she would. This is the critical passage of the story.
For at least two decades Hayden Carruth has been a poet of the first quality... a writer so well endowed with character, courage, stamina, honesty, and independence as to make whatever styles he has adopted or adapted peculiarly his own.
22 Campbell, R. W., N. K. Dawe, I. McTaggart-Cowan, J. M. Cooper, and G. W. Kaiser. 1997. The Birds of British Columbia. Vol. 3, Passerines: Flycatchers through Vireos. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
In The Story of an Hour, a young woman is told of her husband's death. The third story, Luck, is about a famous Englishman.
He is a threat to her peaceful existence and influences her future life and behaviour. This essay will show how Sylvia's attitude towards the hunter changes and how Jewett explores the sexual conflict between the two sexes in this story.
A White Heron and Other Stories: Easyread Edition
Aspects of Initiation in Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron"