White Heron
Sylvia from "A White Heron"
Although the story "A White Heron" has a limited amount of characters, the author Sarah Orne Jewett was able to capture and bring about each characters distinguishing personalities. Their different, but moral strengths and weaknesses the gives the reader a clear understanding of the mediocrity, fear, and loyalty that the story is trying to portray in one little girl. Sylvia was nine when she came to live with Mrs. Tilley in the abyss of the New England wilderness. She was a young and immature, filled with anxiety, and the loneliness one feels being so small in a large, crowded manufacturing town. So when Mrs. Tilley chose her, she was delighted to go off to a place where she wasn't so overwhelmed by the large world. Sylvia was a simple person, who wanted simple surroundings, and a meager life with god's natural beauty. One of her daily and amusing tasks was to retrieve Mrs. Tilley's cow that would wander threw the forest, and always seem to......
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