A+White+Heron

= __A White Heron__ by Sarah Orne Jewett =

Story:
"[|A White Heron]" was about many aspects of life. The premise of the story is about a girl named Sylvia who was walking through a forest when a hunter saw her and asked her about the only white heron in the area. The hunter follows Sylvia back to her house where she and her grandmother provide him residence throughout the night. The following day Sylvia decides to look for the white heron as the hunter offered her 20 dollars, a humongous amount of money at the time, if she told him the location of the bird. Sylvia found the bird but when she was asked the next day by the hunter (he was going out to kill it), Sylvia didn't reply to his question about whether or not she had found the bird or not. Sylvia had a dilemma because was stuck between deciding whether life was priceless or if it was worth 20 dollars. Sylvia had the opportunity to make her life easier by taking the twenty bucks, but instead decided that the bird was beautiful and the money wasn't worth the life of the White Heron. [|more on story] This story asks an important question. You can give up the bird and let it die in order to get the money or  save the bird and live the way we have without improving our status. In that situation i would let the hunter kill the bird because they're is most likely to be more birds, and the money would be for me and my grandmother so its sort of like a take 1 save 2 situation. Keep in mind the class discussion and analogies we used in class: -would you accept any amount of money for a bird to die? -would you accept any amount of money for a random person to die? -(continues to escalate forcing you to draw the line somewhere)

Some questions I had before moving into Mr. Morone's class:
1. What kind of relationship does Sylvia have with the cow? Explain providing a quote from the text to support your point. 2. How is Sylvia described by Mrs. Tilley? 3. What is Mrs. Tilley's relationship to Sylvia? 4. What is the man who calls out to Sylvia doing in the woods? 5. Why does Slyvia sneak out of the house at night? 6. What surprising decision does Sylvia make? Why? //*Extra question//- What does the hunting scientist, whom Sylvia basically rejects, symbolize?

Some Words to Know from the story:
__zest__ **- energy __twitters__ -** a bird sound or call __inaudibly__ **-** nobody can hear __discreetly__ **-** do it so nobody notice you are doing __pasturing__ **-** where the animals go out to eat __demur__ - lady like/quiet __solemn__ **-** not cheerful or sad __vexed__ **-** to annoy or frustrate __perilous__ - full risk of danger [|More information]  