The White Heron
Neda Tavana
Professor Llimcolioc
20 April 2008
Nature that Brings Happiness
…When the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her, must she thrust it aside for a bird's sake?
Within the short story A White Heron, by Sarah Orne Jewett, she uses repetition and symbolic terms as she conveys a young girl’s coming of age while she encounters a decision between her grace and prosperity. Evidence of this binary begins in the opening of the short story when the author represents the young girl in the woods with her cow, which signifies her love for nature. The author also expresses the young girl’s behavior as childish in the beginning of the story, and responds to it at the end of the story to show the girls growth in maturity. Furthermore, Jewett uses terms such as white, which is repeated regularly throughout the story with a deeper meaning. Questions are withheld in the readers mind when the author introduces a handsome woodsman offering prosperity to the young......
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