Sylvia's 'Self-Preservation In A White Heron'

J. M. Barrie wrote about a typical boy based loosely on the Llewellyn Davies family. Barrie could not have known how the world would change when he introduced Peter Pan in 1902’s The Little White Bird or that Peter Pan would be adapted over and over one hundred years later. He could not have imagined the psychiatric term for men the “Peter Pan Syndrome” being a phenomenon. Barrie simply told a story by using characters and life events and creating a children’s story of fantasy. Peter Pan was not traditional in the sense that it tapped into the child at the heart of every human young and old. Barrie was a visionary as well as a writer as he saw brilliance in tragedy and wrote about what human desires to remain youthful and act from an untainted point of view without restrictions. He supplied the child and adult with fantastic escapades of fear and violence, escape from responsibility and shows death as only one more adventure. Barrie met the Llewellyn Davies boys Barrie while he was running away from all his own losses, perhaps he just wanted to keep running and take them all with him.

Sylvia made the right call when she did not tell the hunter where the White Heron was. She close relationship with nature as well as feeling she with one with nature itself. After having met the young hunter she liked him and although what his intentions for the birds was against her love for nature her relationship with this hunter would pull her to make a decision on whether to follow her heart for a man his intentions and beliefs or the love for nature and its welfare.

Within the story, “A White Heron,” the reader is first introduced to the young main character, Sylvia, whose everyday life is interrupted by an unexpected event. As Sylvia is leading her cow home through the forest, she hears an unusual whistle. Her curiosity leads her to meeting a seemingly lost, yet handsome man she had never seen before. Sylvia learns that the man is a hunter, and especially has a passion for hunting birds. The hunter claims he is specifically looking for a white heron and he is willing to give Sylvia and her grandmother 10 dollars if she finds its nest for him.

In Cold Mountain and "A Poem for the Blue Heron", tone is established in a multitude of ways. These two pieces of literature describe the characteristics and actions of a blue heron, both aiming for the same goal. However, Charles Frazier and Mary Oliver approach their slightly differing tones employing organization, metaphoric language, and diction.

In A White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett really dramatizes Sylvia, the main character through using several different literary elements. He uses such things as diction, metaphors, imagery, narrative pace and point of view throughout the story which help the reader stay interested.

Nature is a powerful yet underestimated force. Humans depend on the weather to see if they need to dress warm or dress lightly. What if they weather for today dramatically changed so much that you were so unprepared, there would be a chance of death? In “The Birds,” Daphne Du Maurier uses imagery and foreshadowing to present the idea that people are helpless in the face of nature.

(Consider a better transition into the new topic. You can add transition word or add connecting sentence to the previous paragraph) Realism is the key style in A White Heron . This element avoids a ‘fairy tale’ feeling to the story and, rather, allows it to focus on more important issues. The author shows this in Sylvia’s development of her feelings towards the sportsman and how she regards those feelings in order to embrace individualism and knows that “whatever treasures were lost to her, woodlands and summer time, remember!” the wilderness is a part of who she is (Jewett 71). This is the point where she neglects her feelings for the hunter and, instead, realizes her own true feelings towards the countryside and what it has offered to her and will continually provide for her own spiritual and personal needs. Not only is realism used in Sylvia’s focus on real-life-in-the-moment events, but in other minor uses such as the setting. The story takes place within the parameters of Sylvia’s “clean and comfortable…little dwelling” in a middle to lower level class community that “does not rebel at the companionship of hens” (Jewett 65).

In the story, “A White Heron,” the reader is introduced to the main character, Sylvia. Her quest begins when she meets a man who is lost within the nearby forest and is in need of a place to stay for the night. Sylvia

In the beginning of the short story, we learn about Sylvia’s love for nature. Nature gave her a sense of utility the crowded manufacturing town could not offer. When she was walking home with Mistress Moolly, the cow, they encountered a deserted cat that came to greet them. She whispered to the cat saying, “This is a beautiful place to live in, and she never should wish to go home” (Page 527, para 3). As Sylvia grows closer to the stranger she is in an inner-conflict with the emotions of greed and her love of nature. The monetary reward in revealing the heron’s location gives Sylvia a temporary thrill, as we learn from the use of third-person-limited point of view, “No amount of thought, that night, could decide how many wished-for treasures the ten dollars, so lightly spoken of, would buy” (Page 530, para 1). However, the story concludes in a “relieving manner” for the reader. Although, we do not know if the hunter found the bird later on, the reader becomes alleviated by the fact the endangered bird was not revealed at that moment. Regardless of the monetary reward, Sylvia will not betray her values about the love for nature of which she shares with the white heron.

Artemis Fowl is a twelve year old kid that comes from a family of criminals. For centuries the fowls have been subverting justice. Armed robberies and smuggling but mostly corporate crimes the last century. Artemis may be only twelve but he is still criminal mastermind. He has an extremely high iq. He’s also a very clever person, when doing a crime he knows how to make it so people don't have any idea who did it. Artemis has a sidekick named butler. He only pronounces his name by his last name, Butler. The Butlers have been helping the Fowls since the very beginning. Once a new Fowl comes along, a Butler starts training to become his helper. Artemis also has a mother who happens to be a bit on the crazy side. Her name is Angelina. Sometimes

In “A White Heron,” Sylvia excels in the central role, especially for the functioning of the story. Sincerely, the story could not exist without Sylvia because the hunter would find no one with the ability to help his search; thusly, no Sylvia would mean no decision to make on if the bird lives or not in the story. Moreover, Sylvia retains her pure, female integrity, and she remains true to her own choice of loving nature. Females are often made hopelessly feeble and easily swayed in literature, so it is refreshing to have a girl not fall into the scheme of some attractive man. The hunter has merely himself on his mind, and he knows how to get his way in the world; nevertheless, he only wants the

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“Momma,” Lum whispered in the darkness. “Can you tell me about Old Ignis, like Grandmomma told you when you were like me?”