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    Sensing a Pattern In general‚ authors follow a pattern when writing. Some may use foreshadowing or irony in all of their work‚ while others may have characters that are alike. Sarah Orne Jewett is no exception to this generalization. Her poems‚ stories‚ novellas‚ and books commonly contain similar traits. Sarah Orne Jewett‚ an author best known for her local color works‚ often wrote in first-person‚ used allusions and historical references‚ and set her stories in the New England area. Using first-person

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    "There never was such a child for straying about out-of-doors since the world was made" (Jewett 69). A young girl‚ Sylvia‚ lived in a city environment for the first eight years of her life. Then‚ Sylvia came to live with her grandmother in the country‚ where the little girl came alive and became one with nature. One day in her travels through the countryside with her cow she encounter a lost ornithologist who was in search of a white heron that he had spotted in the area weeks before. At first‚ the

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    Neda Tavana Professor Llimcolioc 20 April 2008 Nature that Brings Happiness …When the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her‚ must she thrust it aside for a bird ’s sake? Within the short story A White Heron‚ by Sarah Orne Jewett‚ she uses repetition and symbolic terms as she conveys a young girl’s coming of age while she encounters a decision between her grace and prosperity. Evidence of this binary begins in the opening of the short story when the author represents the young

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    A child’s curiosity is a beautiful and marvelous spectacle which can be seen in the short passage from the text A White Heron‚ by Sarah Orne Jewett. In this short passage the author details the story of a young girl whose curiosity leads her to climbing a tree in order to see miles and miles into the distance. In order to accomplish this‚ the author explores several literary devices such as diction‚ imagery and point of view to develop a scene which readers can picture and connect to. Whether it

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    AP Prompt –“To Helen” and “Helen: While the Edgar Allen Poe approaches Helen’s beauty in a much more affectionate manner in the poem “To Helen‚” H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) expresses Helen’s beauty through envy and hatred in her poem‚ “Helen”. In “To Helen” the diction is very specific to evoke a romantic and affectionate style of writing‚ while in “Helen”‚ H.D. chooses her words in a very negative way to show a style of writing that expresses envy. Poe writes‚ “To the glory that was Greece/And the

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    Sarah Orne Jewett: Changing Society Through Writing Sarah Orne Jewett had a challenging life‚ struggling with rheumatoid arthritis and the death of her father in the late 1800’s. Amidst these challenges‚ she continued to write excellent novels that challenged the customs of the time (GVRL 2009). A famous saying of hers states‚ “How seldom a book comes that stirs the minds and hearts of the good men and women of such a village as this” (GVRL 1997). This saying connects to how her novels would make

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    of transition and experience to become her true self in finding what makes her happy‚ becoming a more mature female‚ and being truthful to herself. Sylvia is not the typical young girl; childhood is generally a time of discovery and experience. Jewett chooses to write about the maintenance of innocence through in her story‚ “A White Heron.” Sylvia‚ the protagonist‚ has an awakening that begins a deeper altitude????? of individual development when she resists both greed and admiration in order to

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    Helen and Miss Temple both play a very important role in the emotional development and maturity of Jane. Coming from a hellish place where not a single person sympathises or understands her up until the few weeks before she leaves‚ she is naturally inclined to be intolerant and rebellious. The actions and words of both Helen and Miss Temple affect her greatly throughout her stay at Lowood‚ and without them she very well might have failed. For instance‚ Jane’s first interaction with Helen comes after

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    (Freivogel 137). In reality‚ the hunt is simply for the bird and innocence remains prominent‚ which is shown when Jewett writes that Sylvia‚ “could not understand why he killed the very birds he seemed to like so much” (Jewett 67). A clear symbol in “A White Heron” is the hunter who symbolizes an enemy; the enemy against nature and and the enemy

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    SYPNOSIS: A bitter tension between the jets‚ a self-styled “American” street gang‚ and the Sharks‚ a group of young Puerto Ricans opens the scene. The leader of the jets‚ Riff swears to drive the Sharks‚ led by Bernardo‚ from the streets. Riff determines to challenge Bernardo that night at a dance in the gym‚ and prevails upon his old friend and the co-founder of the Jets‚ Tony‚ to help him. Tony has been growing away from the gang‚ and feels the stirrings of other emotions but reluctantly agrees

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