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Analysis Of A White Eron By Sarah Onre Jewett

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The short story “A WHITE HERON” by Sarah Onre Jewett, is a fable of a young girl whose love for nature disputes with her interest with a young man. In the first part of the story, the author creates Sylvia as a “child of nature” who does not really care about people. After spending her first eight years of her life in a crowded manufacturing town where she had been harassed by a great red-faced boy, her Grandmother who were living in a farm had to rescue her from the city. Sylvia was afraid of folks. One evening, Sylvia was driving home her cow named Mistress Molly for milking, which is described as a value companion, she is surprised by the sound of a whistle. Sylvia tries to hire in the brush, but the young sees her and asks her, how far

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