“A White Heron”

From the very first steps of the new settlers on the American continent, its uncivilized nature, full of smell of the forests, of freshness of the air, and of almost black variety of flowers and trees, came to be associated with unlimited wilderness. However, under the vigorous round out of developing civilization the untouched virginity of the New World presently began to recede, irretrievably losing its wild independent mantrap. The short novel of an American writer Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron, is one of the deeds written on this touching American theme. In this story the author presents the conflict by contrasting a olive-sized country-girl Sylvia, who lives in harmony with nature, to the bird-hunter from a town. She does so through appellation of a girl with nature and boys with civilization. While the girl stands for the free femininity of natural world, who tell aparts and cares about the creatures around, the boys are associated with aggression, danger and hawkish elements of civilization. Thus she implies the idea that nature is just like a harmless little girl just exists in relaxation with every tiny thing around, while civilization, like a young man with a gun, by its utilitarian love for nature senselessly annihilates the artless creation.




From the opening lines of the story A White Heron ushers her readers into the magic world of untouched beauty of the New England wilderness. It is a warm June evening on the chief(prenominal) coast as the sun begins to set. The reader is immediately charmed and has no choice but to proceed, to walk further, among the trees, until he meets a little girl, walking by the forest path to furbish upher with her dawdling friend, a alarm by the name of tart Moolly. It is not by a chance that both the cow and the girl are noticeably well acquainted with the woods around them, she writes that their feet are so much familiar with the path they walk by that it is no matter whether their eyes [can] chew the fat it or not(Jewett 1142). Thus it is clear that the...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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