Preview

A White Heron and the Beast in the Jungle: a Comparison and Contra

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
780 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
A White Heron and the Beast in the Jungle: a Comparison and Contra
"A White Heron" and "The Beast in the Jungle": A Comparison and Contrast Essay

Comparing and contrasting Jewett's Sylvy in "A White Heron" with May
Bartram of James's "The Beast in the Jungle" proves to be an interesting task.
How can two such unlike characters be so alike. Only on close examination do these common threads appear. In the story "A White Heron," Sylvy is presented as a young, pre- adolescent girl, living in the country with her grand mother. They are very isolated to themselves, living fairly simple and frugal lives. Sylvy has a few mundane responsibilities which give way to plenty of time for meandering about, and day dreaming while setting about her task. One evening, after much searching for their cow, which proved to be a daily chore, she was coercing the cow back home when surprised by the presence of a stranger. He was ever so polite and friendly. He was hunting the Great White Heron and had hoped she or her family might put him up for the evening. In a nice sort of way he was pushy and insistent. Not used to interacting with many people, the reader can see it would have been a difficult situation for her to handle any other way. Rather, it handled her. The grandmother was most receptive and hospitable. Over the course of the short stay, Sylvy realized many things. The hunter offered money in exchange for help in finding the heron's nest. Not only was his offer tempting and attractive, but a curiosity awakened in her as he was most attractive as well. She was somewhat intrigued and in a fog, taken each moment and each step one at a time, carefully, slowly. Sylvy seems to come to her senses in the twelfth hour when she climbs high into the trees early one morning to see the white heron fly in ever so close. It was as though their was a kinship between the two, an understanding. Because of this special feeling for the bird, Sylvy could not succumb to the hunter's desire for knowledge of the nest and never divulged the secret.

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    White Heron Symbolism

    • 339 Words
    • 2 Pages

    It is significant because the red faced boy brings back memories about her childhood which in turn makes you believe something…

    • 339 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Around 5:30 p.m., when things were getting “just right,” O’Brien heard a noise and saw the back end of his deer heading in the other direction! He thought for a moment that the hunt was over. But then the sound of a slamming car door and a car engine starting seemed to turn the deer back around. He was heading back towards O’Brien’s stand.…

    • 2104 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    house to her and makes it a point to tell her if she tried escaping his…

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    A little after midday, as she continued through the woods, a cool breeze lifted from the trees and carried the sound of hoof beats and…

    • 635 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    White Heron Motif

    • 213 Words
    • 1 Page

    In the short story “A White Heron”, the birds and Sylvia are an important motif to the story. Sylvia is an important motif because she’s the main character and how her actions could affect the white heron. I feel the theme of the story is nature versus mankind because when the stranger arrives it’s to find the white heron bird. He’s looking for the white heron bird so he can kill and preserve it. And he wants help from Sylvia since she knows the woods very well and has seen all the types of animals that live there. But she’s not sure about telling the stranger where the heron bird is at. She is indecisive in what to do since she’s being offered money but she finds beauty in nature and animals so she doesn’t understand why somebody would want…

    • 213 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cavalry Maiden

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages

    “One day Mama and some ladies went for an outing into the dense pine forest…this was the first time in my life that I had been taken out into the open where I could see dense forest…I could barely catch my breath for joy, and we no sooner came into the forest than I, out of my mind with rapture, immediately ran off and kept running…I ran, frisked, picked flowers, and climbed to the tips of tall trees” (6).…

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Did you know that renowned short story author Flannery O'Connor loved peacocks? Shortly before her early death at the age of 39, O'Connor owned around 40 birds (Eby 2013). This fact will not come as surprising to those who have read O'Connor's work, as the peacock is often found in her stories, many times being used as a religious symbol, such as in her short story The Displaced Person (Eby 2013). Similarly, well-loved author C.S. Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia takes a turn for the semi-autobiographical when Lewis begins his fantasy stories with children fleeing from war and taking refuge in the mansion of a scholarly old professor. During World War II, Lewis himself took in many refugees, and there is little doubt…

    • 1001 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Up with a sack, and she was driven to her next stop. The people who had driven her to…

    • 1262 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Since I was little I’ve been out around the cows. Some of my earliest memories are being in the hay loft and throwing hay down to the cows. Then sitting on his lap in the skid loader scooping manure up. In more recent years I have been showing cows and boy are they a lot of work. Washing them at least two times a day, feeding them, then walking them, We even have to blow dry them. I have worked with my heifer so much this year that she follows me around like a puppy. The more I work with cows the harder worker I become.…

    • 642 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Story of an Hour Q&A

    • 772 Words
    • 4 Pages

    "She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves."…

    • 772 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Since the beginning of time, nature has been a great source of wonder and inspiration for mankind. Writers have composed about a wide range of the spectacular elements of planet earth from the mightiest of oceans to the most idiosyncratic species of insects. Both John James Audubon and Annie Dillard describe their personal experiences of witnessing large flocks of birds in flight in their own respective passages. The two authors have similar experiences but they describe the birds in different ways. Both descriptions are full of colorful language style and diction, however their two different crafts differentiate the way the event is described.…

    • 555 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “Hello, I’ve got a cow here that just won’t stand up. I’ve checked around him, he looks fine. I don’t know what’s wrong with him.”…

    • 717 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    It was June and the animals were being treated very badly. The animals were not being fed. There came a point where they couldn't stand it anymore and one of the cows broke into the store-shed. Then the…

    • 700 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    acquainted with. She goes on to further secure the relationship by inviting him to her house late…

    • 963 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Jungle animals

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Jungles and rainforests are similar, but while rainforests have thick canopies of tall trees that block out light, jungles allow more light in, making it easier for plants to grow.…

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays