Have you ever had a feeling about someone that just didn’t sit well? Did you change your opinion because you thought you got to know them? If so, have you ever realized you should have stuck to your initial feeling? Well this is what happened to Sylvia in Sara Orne Jewetts, “A White Heron”. Sylvia is put in a position where she has to decide whether to go with her initial feeling and not trust the hunter, or how she feels after spending some time with him.
On her way home from locating the family cow, Mistress Moolly who has a tendency to stray away, a hunter notices Sylvia and calls out to her. She did not trust this man when she first saw him on the path; she ran and hid in some nearby bushes. “The enemy had discovered her,” (2) was how she described him; as an enemy, not just a person. Sylvia tries not to acknowledge him but he follows her home.
Later on that night, Sylvia sneaks out of her house and stakes out where she suspects the White Herons’ nest is. She stays up there looking at all of the beauty of the World and eventually sees where the nest is. On her way home she starts “wondering over and over what the stranger would say to her, and what he would think when she told him how to find his way straight to the heron’s nest.” (6) This makes me think she is having some second thoughts about his character and how much she is able to trust him. Once she gets home and is asked where she has been, she debates to herself, “what is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb?”(7) In my opinion it is her subconscious that is telling her that something is not right with the decision she is about to make.
a kept him company, having lost her first fear of the friendly lad, who proved to be most kind and sympathetic.” (4). While
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