“A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett, is a short story about a young girl’s conflict between her love for nature and her desire to be liked by a handsome hunter. Sylvia, who grew up in town, goes to live with her grandmother in the woods. There she meets a young hunter, who is also an ornithologist, whom she soon begins to greatly admire, but is troubled by the fact that he shoots the very birds that she loves. From her experiences with the hunter, Sylvia learns