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A White Heron Style

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A White Heron Style

Set in an isolated portion of Maine, "A White Heron" tells of a lonely nine-year-old girl's decision not to reveal the location of a beautiful white heron and its nest to a visiting hunter. The hunter leaves, disappointed, and the girl, Sylvia, loses her first human friend.

Narrator/Point of View

Of all the technical aspects of this story, that of a young girl who must choose between revealing the location of a heron's nest to an appealing ornithologist and protecting the bird, none has proven more problematic to critics than point of view. Many readers have seen Jewett's abrupt and dramatic changes in point of view as a weakness and a sign of immature talent; however, more recently, readers have seen the shifts as intentional and effective. The story is told by an omniscient third-person narrator, that is, a narrator who is not present as a character in the story, but who...
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This section contains 1,223 words
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Purchase our A White Heron Study Guide
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