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Sarah Orne Jewette's A White Heron

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In “A White Heron”, a short story by Sarah Orne Jewette, a young girl lives out in the woods with her grandmother and is tasked with a tough decision that will weigh heavily on her conscience depending on her choice. In this story, Sylvia could be described as a child of nature. After having lived in the forest for only a year Sylvia has come to know her way around the forest with ease. As Sylvia’s grandmother told the hunter: "There ain't a foot o' ground she don't know her way over, and the wild creaturs counts her one o' themselves.” While on her daily trip of leading home the family cow, Sylvia hears a whistle and ends up meeting a hunter that soon tasks her with helping him find a white heron. After knowing the hunter for only a day
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