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white heron

            The story, "White Heron" relates to how humanity in general has in some ways evolved and in some ways stood still when referring to women's rights. It describes a child coming into women hood before her time when advanced upon by an older male stranger. This story takes place in the late 1800's when women were looked down upon and treated as objects by men. White Heron used a child (Sylvia) to write about an adult subject, the relationships between a man and a woman. Through this story Sylvia embarks on a journey to self-realization and women hood in discovering her passion for the peace and solidarity found in the woods and with her woodland friends. I will use the Cycle of Human Experience to dissect Sylvia's coming of age story, by documenting her experiences as they relate to the points in the cycle.
             The prediction of birth for Sylvia begins while she tends to her chore of driving her cow home. They walk in the woods filled with shadows towards the western light that leads to her birth, when the character is recognized as special. In literary works the reference to shadows represents the prediction of death and the west signifies death, which in turn symbolizes Sylvia's dying as a little girl and being resurrected as a woman. This is the stepping-stone in Sylvia becoming a woman.
             Sylvia's quest is to find her inner self and evolve into the independent woman she .
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             was meant to be. The journey first began when she migrated from the city, living with a house full of siblings to the country life with just her grandmother. She began to realize that her heart is in the country, feeling as though she had never been alive until she moved to the farm. .
             The temptation in this story is the male stranger who just happens to be hunting for "birds" (a term for women) in the very same woods that Sylvia is walking in.


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1. A White Heron

In the realistic story, "A White Heron," character and characterization are the most important elements of the story because of the emphasis on Sylvia in general, as well as the difficult resolution she is forced to make. ... The entire first half of "A White Heron" describes Sylvia's day-to-day life at her house, and how it drastically changed when the mysterious stranger appeared. ... With every intention of telling the stranger the precise position of the heron's home, Sylvia sets out early in the morning to find the heron. ... She is torn between changing her poor lifestyle ...

  • Word Count: 367
  • Approx Pages: 1
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Themes of The White Heron

The title of the story, "The White Heron," is not just an ordinary bird but a "queer tall white bird with soft feathers and long thin legs. ... It is his obligation to complete his collection of fine birds and even offers ten dollars to whoever shows or leads him to the white heron. ... Nature plays a huge role in "The White Heron" and clearly dominates the story. ... She dismisses a friendship and remains a country lonely child, but now has a new friend: The white heron. ... The white heron becomes her friend, a better friend than the hunter, and although she dismiss...

  • Word Count: 927
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

3. White Heron

In White Heron Sylvia is first introduced as a shy girl who was "afraid of folks." ... He brings about the ideas of death and technology with the use of his guns, as well as materialism by offering money for the white heron he is looking for. Sylvia knows of the white heron and feels connected to it and she will not give up its location to the ornithologist. Sylvia makes her final decision after seeing the white heron with his mate and she knows she will not reveal its whereabouts to the man. ... The white heron together with its mate represent something that Sylvia longs for,...

  • Word Count: 349
  • Approx Pages: 1
  • Grade Level: High School

4. white heron

In White Heron Sylvia is first introduced as a shy girl who was "afraid of folks." ... He brings about the ideas of death and technology with the use of his guns, as well as materialism by offering money for the white heron he is looking for. Sylvia knows of the white heron and feels connected to it and she will not give up its location to the ornithologist. Sylvia makes her final decision after seeing the white heron with his mate and she knows she will not reveal its whereabouts to the man. ... The white heron together with its mate represent something that Sylvia longs for, as they ma...

  • Word Count: 347
  • Approx Pages: 1
  • Grade Level: High School

5. How The Crucible is a tragedy & John Proctor a tragic hero

The two stories that I read was called "The Bet" and "A White Heron." ... In the story of "A White Heron", the girl gave up money for hapiness because the heron's life was way more important than the prize. ... In the story of "A White Heron", the thing that she learned about herself was that she also knew that she made the right choice by not telling the man about the white heron. If she would of told the man about the white heron and collected her prize, than the life of the white heron would of been over. ... In the story of "A White Heron", the little girl coul...

  • Word Count: 835
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

6. The White Heron

The White Heron symbolises Sylvia's, the central character in the story's, loneliness and her freedom or the need to escape amongst other themes. ... The White Heron symbolises Sylvia's loneliness by being a "solemn" creature itself. ... The story's central character, Sylvia associates herself with the story's main symbol the white heron through this context. ... The narrator also tells that the heron is a lonely or rather quite creature by saying " vexed by their fluttering lawlessness, the solemn heron goes away". ... The symbolisation of the white heron helps the...

  • Word Count: 572
  • Approx Pages: 2

7. A White Heron

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. This story is about an innocent, nave girl named Sylvia who matures throughout the story and realizes the importance of keeping the secret of the white heron. When the reader first starts to read A White Heron, it sounds like a simple story about a young, curious girl living with her grandmother on a farm, and a bird hunter who is looking for a heron that the young girl has seen before. ... In the ...

  • Word Count: 1090
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

8. A White Heron

"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...

  • Word Count: 793
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

9. White Heron

"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. ...

  • Word Count: 555
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

10. A white heron

"A White Heron," by Orne Jewett is a story about a young girl living on a farm in New England. ... The hunter was in search for a white heron he wanted to kill for his collection of stuffed birds. ... He has a large collection of stuffed birds and want one of a White heron, and because Sylvia is adventurous he wants her to help him. ... When she was standing at the top of the tree looking from her, "two eager eyes," (534) She knew in her heart that she would find the white heron and she did. ... Therefore making her decision, to not tell of where the white...

  • Word Count: 851
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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