Sarah Orne Jewett

Bird is the Word According to writer, scientist, and environmentalist Aldo Leopold, "Conservation is the state of harmony between men and land" (BrainyQuote). In the short story, “A White Heron”, writer Sarah Orne Jewett, portrays the theme that nature must be protected and not harmed. Sarah Orne Jewett was born in the year 1849, in a small town in Maine. Growing up, she always wanted to be a doctor, being that her father was one. When she realized that becoming a doctor required years and years of education

Young love, it is a thrilling time in where the blinded youth cross a field unknown. A field where one must undergo a numerous amount of challenges and temptations. In the short story "A White Heron" the author, Sarah Orne Jewett, tells a story about a blossoming girl who encounters a young man, a typical boy meets girl scenario, so it would seem. The desire to be loved can drive a person to do the craziest of things, especially at a young age. Growing up one can learn to express emotion through

Temptation is a tricky thing. It is often difficult for one to make the ‘right choice’ because both options commonly appear as being equally good or bad. In Sarah Orne Jewett’s short story, A White Heron, a young, naive Sylvia faces temptation in it’s truest form. She is forced to make a tough choice, where her decision would either benefit her or save an innocent creature. This story depicts an age-old strife that still plagues society today which exists as the internal struggle between greedily

Who has the right to determine any individual’s future? This is often the subject of debate and is subjected to the prejudices of social norms. The protagonist in Sarah Orne Jewett’s A Country Doctor, Nan Prince, fights against these prejudices pertaining to the expected role of women in society1 with a calm and dignified demeanor. In Nan’s pursuit of her career as a doctor, she encounters reasons for and against her decision from her personal history, religion, and the portrayal of her career and

Sarah Orne Jewett was a female author in the late 19th century, who can be immediately set apart from other writers of her time by the quality and content of her work, as well as the fact of her success as a female writer during a time when writing books was considered a man’s profession. Jewett always had a penchant for observation and contemplation, and utilized these abilities, along with valuable writing advice given to her by her father, to develop her unique writing style. Without delving into

In the excerpt from her novel, A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett utilizes characterization and imagery to dramatize her young heroine’s adventure, shifting the tone from ambivalent to triumphant. Aided by characterization and imagery, the story’s initial tone is ambivalent because of the mixed emotions Sylvia feels while climbing. Sylvia is first described as daring, “She had always believed that whoever climbed to the top of it could see the ocean… Sylvia began with the utmost bravery to mount to

"Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it" (Baldwin). All experiences spring out of innocence. Sarah Orne Jewett expresses this through the story “The White Heron.” She uses the story to show how easily innocence can be influenced. "For Jewett, it seems to have been a personal 'myth' that expressed her own experience and the experience of other women in the nineteenth century who had similar gifts, aspirations, and choices" (Griffith). Her personal experiences include her living

The Rural Privilege in A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" is a brilliant story of an inquisitive young girl named Sylvia. Jewett's narrative describes Sylvia's experiences within the mystical and inviting woods of New England. I think a central theme in "A White Heron" is the dramatization of the clash between two competing sets of values in late nineteenth-century America: industrial and rural. Sylvia is the main character of the story. We can follow

In A White Heron , the author, Sarah Orne Jewett, describes a young girl who interacts with a number of elements that cause her to discover who she is and what she stands for. Sylvia, being only nine years old and coming from a large family from the demanding city life , is moved to her grandmother’s remote farm where she finds herself to be comfortably isolated from the rest of the world. This, in fact, suits her lack of social ability, and so she finds herself becoming one with nature: both the

Sarah Orne Jewett began writing at an early age as she was inspired by, The Pearl of Orr’s Island written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Jewett began writing in the style of the author of her inspiration and thus fell in love with the style of writing that encapsulated nearly every author of her time, local color writing. Local color writing is a style of writing that became popular just after the Civil War. Many writers began writing with a focus on the way of life and nature in their direct surrounding