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    Analysis of the White Heron Sarah Orne Jewett is my most favorite American author uses regional details to make the events and themes of a narrative come to live for readers. “The White Heron”, written by Sarah Orne Jewett, is best known for depicting of a relationship, self-discovery and loyalty with a wonderful setting of a rural in Maine. It explores this meaning by describing a little girl’s compassion for a white heron. It tells in sequence an encounter between her and a bird hunter. She had

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    Jackson runs into in the field, the birds that appear and fly over Phoenix Jackson’s head, and finally the marble cake that the dream boy gives Phoenix when she

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    comprehend in short little tales and fairy tale where the kids get images in the mind and picture themselves in the situation. After reading to the kids, people get children to read short stories because it is something the children find amusing and find interesting to read. Fairy tales usually have easy words for kids to pronounce for early stages of reading. Kids stories always have a meaning and a point to teach kids what is right. Three good readings for children are “White Heron”, “Why the Tortoise

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    That same summer, after my father got home from work a little early, he allowed me to ride the mow. Since the yard was already mowed the day before, I utilized this opportunity to practice my epic passion of becoming a NASCAR race car driver. My mother thought it was a little unusual that I aspired to the feeling of speed that is typically a dream that young boys have. Speed made me feel like I was the empress of the road and like I would arrive at my destination faster than anyone else, even though

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    Blue Monologue

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    Origin Story The small bird flies in the blue sky. The little bird didn’t like the plain white on its feathers so it absorbed the blue of the sky. The blue disappears and the sky cries for its once stolen color becoming gray. Gray like it becomes today. The little girl painted of gray. Hair as red as pain. She looks at the world before her filled with no sorrow, grief, happiness, anger, color. The world before our own was filled with no emotions, our world before the creation of feelings and colors

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    Mockingbird Poster

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    make a bird. In fact, I made the mockingbird. I drew the bird on a white poster board first to experiment. It took me three tries to draw the bird on the white poster board. I cut the bird out and used the white poster board as a tracer on the black poster board. Then I cut the final product out on the black poster board. On the bird I taped pictures of Jem, Scout, and Atticus on there. Under the pictures I wrote and the name and the facts of that character. In the rest of the space on the bird, I wrote

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    racial tension. The blacks and white were not equal. It was a time of black oppression an injustice. These themes are shown 
 through the texts, ‘The Help‘ by Kathryn Stockett, ‘Mississippi Burning‘ directed by Allan 
 Parker, ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird‘ by Harper Lee and ‘Caged Bird‘ by Maya Angelon. These 
 texts depict a society of white supremacy, injustice, opression and fear of the other. White supremacy is depicted throughout the texts with whites having

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    but I believe music is an art represented through sound and lyrics. Music is a form of poetry with a little tune to it. Music has a message to it just as poetry would. Modern day music can reflect on many things, just as poetry sometimes refers to events going on in the world. Many years ago a very controversial topic was the discussion of slavery, and later the inequality of colored men to whites. Popular American poets, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, are two of the very few who would

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    surroundings. In “A White Heron” a young girl reaches a conflict of her view personally through nature contradicted to the young men that soon will be introduced to her. Young Sylvia moves in with her grandmother and is learning the ways of the woods rather than the city. Many mythical significances occur through the tree, the hunter, the cow, and the heron to create the elements of different literary ways. The story begins as young Sylvia is interrupted by a hunter who is looking for a new bird for his collection

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    By using a narrator that is outside the story, Eudora Welty shows us how powerful and motivational true love can be (theme) through the character Phoenix Jackson in “A Worn Path”. Although Pheonix faces many challenges in an attempt to get the medication for her grandson, she never gives up, and eventually prevails, but there are certain traits she holds that give her the ability to accomplish her end goal of retrieving the medication. In the first paragraph of the story Phoenix is described as

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