Most people assume that a young child doesn't have the capacity to make hard life decisions. Each person encounters situations and people that will have influences on the choices she makes as she travels through her life. Sometimes the situations cause these choices to be easy, and sometimes they can be very difficult to make. Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" is about Sylvia, a young city girl that comes to live with her grandmother on her farm in the country. She encounters a young hunter looking for a rare bird that has been sited in the area, a white heron. He is looking for a place to stay while he is hunting for birds. Sylvia reluctantly takes him home to her grandmother, Mrs. Tilley, feeling very wary of his presence. The hunter offers Sylvia $10 if she will tell him the location of the white heron, and she has to choose between her allegiance to nature and her newly budding interest in the young man. Even though Sylvia is a timid child, she is very nurturing and has maturity and determination beyond that of a normal 9-year old girl. .
While most children, at the age of nine, are inquisitive and want to know all about people and the world around them, Sylvia is a very quiet and timid girl. Sylvia lived in a busy industrial town until she was eight years old; then, her grandmother "made the unlikely choice of Sylvia from her daughter's houseful of children" to come live with her on the farm (622). Her grandmother says that she is "Afraid of folks" (622). Jewett uses Sylvia's reaction to people to show how timid and easily alarmed she becomes. Sylvia, a little woods girl, is very comfortable out in nature, and is normally not afraid of the shadows or the animals. While bringing home the cow one night, the "thought of the red-faced boy who used to chase and frighten her [makes] her hurry along the path" (623). The simple thought of the boy alarms her and makes her hurry along to get out of the shadows of the trees.
In "A White Heron," Sarah Orne Jewett describes the journey of a little girl and reminds the reader how it feels to have a sudden moment of revelation. To convey this universal idea, Jewett utilizes a chronological organization that moves from a challenge to a quest and finally to a moment of victory. ...
In Sarah Ornes Jewetts', A White Heron, it sounds like a simple story at first, but once it's analyzed and picked apart, there are many more aspects to the story that are revealed. ... In the beginning of the short story, A White Heron, Sylvia was very much afraid of the woods which were in the back of her grandmother's farm house. ... (Jewett, 183). ... (Jewett 189). ... Throughout Jewett's A White Heron, young Sylvia proved to be much more intelligent and mature than the average nine year old girl. ...
"A White Heron" is a short story written by Sarah Orne Jewett. ... "You would know the heron if you saw it, a queer tall white bird with soft feathers and long thin legs. ... Yet, at the time that "A White Heron" was written, it could have been equivalent to about $1,000. ... She would be able to enjoy time with the heron. ... The heron has been her only friend besides Miss Moolly, the cow. ...
"A White Heron" "A White Heron," a story carefully built into emotion by Sarah Orne Jewett explores man V.S. man as well as man V.S. nature and uses symbolism to create man V.S. himself. ... The three main symbols we look for in the story are the geranium, a withered away flower, a pine tree, tall and vast in space, and a heron, unique, free, and alive. ... So the hunter offers to give Sylvia ten dollars to help him find the heron. ... Lastly, the heron plays a big symbol in the story by representing Sylvia in her uniqueness. ...
The short story "A White Heron" written by Sarah Orne Jewett is the story of a young girl and how she becomes her own person in a time when women were supposed to be loyal like dogs toward men. The current views and the beginning of change in those views that some of society held towards the independence of women in the late 1800s can be seen through the character portrayals in "A White Heron." ... Jewett shows men as being proud and always in search of a prize, rather than companionship. ...
The short story "A White Heron" written by Sarah Orne Jewett is the story of a young girl and how she becomes her own person in a time when women were supposed to be loyal like dogs toward men. The current views and the beginning of change in those views that some of society held towards the independence of women in the late 1800s can be seen through the character portrayals in "A White Heron." ... Jewett shows men as being proud and always in search of a prize, rather than companionship. ...
"A White Heron" is a short story written by Sarah Orne Jewett. ... "You would know the heron if you saw it, a queer tall white bird with soft feathers and long thin legs. ... Yet, at the time that "A White Heron" was written, it could have been equivalent to about $1,000. ... The murmur of the pine's green branches is in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak, she cannot tell the heron's secret and give its life away." ... By the end of "A White Heron" the young g...
When we look at the stories we have read so far which like "The Story Of Avis" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, we can learn about women's opinions in this period. ... Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett expressed and explored the realities of women's lives after marriage in their fictions. ... In Jewett's story "A White Heron", the words that Sylvia can choose to utter to the hunter or withhold from him will determine her future and that of her natural worl...
Sylvia, a character from Sarah Orne Jewett's short story, A White Heron, goes through a plethora of events and personal decision making while unknowingly finding herself. ... The young man explains that he is a bird collector and only needs one more bird, a White Heron, to complet! ... Suddenly, a White Heron appears on the tree close to Sylvia. ... Whether it was money or a pocketknife, the man was willing to do anything necessary in order to find a White Heron. ... A White Heron explains how an individual found herself, and by doing so killed one mans dream and passed up money for h...
