Examples Of A Thesis Statement For A White Heron

Thesis Statement: Sylvia’s nighttime quest is really a journey into herself.

In Sara Orne Jewett’s ‘A White Heron’, we are introduced to a shy, withdrawn and lonely young girl, Sylvia. When Sylvia has a unlikely encounter with a handsome young hunter, shy finds herself torn between the longing for his affection, and material treasures. One example of this is when the hunter made her a very generous offer, "I can't think of anything I should like so much as to find that heron's nest," the handsome stranger was saying. "I would give ten dollars to anybody who could show it to me," he added desperately, " and her own devotion to the wilderness and the animals that have taken her in. It is not until Sylvia embarks on a dangerous midnight quest that she fully realizes that the heron is, in her mind, an extension of her self. Silvia comes to the conclusion that the she couldn’t let the hunter kill the bird, it would be like killing a part of her self. Sylvia has made up her mind, despite monetary temptations. “No, she must keep silence! What is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb? Has she been nine years growing and now, when the great world for
The murmur of the pine's green branches is in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together,