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This 7 page report discusses a short story written by of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909) demonstrates her deep connection to the natural world and her understanding of the relationship between humans and their environment and how that relationship has an impact on the self. Upon a first reading of “A White Heron,” one can make the assumption that the deceptively simple piece is quite nearly a children’s story and not much more. But from a larger or community perspective, the story is about the socialization of girls, the training to fulfill a man’s desires, the balance of power between the sexes, and the need for women to be true to their nature. Emily Dickinson’s short poem, “A Light Exists in Spring” is also used compared to the short story. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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her to kill herself at the age of 31. Her works have touched the lives and resonated with the personal experience of countless people, especially young women who have experienced
much of the angst of growing up female in a so-called "mans world." As the student researches Plath, he or she will see that there is a measured and bittersweet
joy along with the pain expressed in both the prose and poetry of Plath. In fact, her famous 1963 novel, The Bell Jar (originally published under the pseudonym of "Victoria
Lewis") is thought by many as a book which offered them a life-altering awareness of their own life. As Richard Whittington-Egan (1998) points out: "The fact is that Sylvia Plath
is both icon and artifact" (pp. 238). She was a remarkable talent, a passionate woman, meticulous poet, and a deception. Even forty years after her death, it is difficult to
determine what is and was true about Plath and how it applies to those who read it. How Plath is Read Her fans and her critics have typically placed a
great deal of themselves and their own experiences into the writings of Sylvia Plath. She clearly touches something, either negatively or positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes
Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesome, all-American, super-clever, straight Alpha, scholarship-winning, prize-carrying-off, prize-to-be-carried-off college girl. But she was really one of the gods high-heeled walking
wounded" (pp. 239). Countless readers, especially equally "shining" women are likely to relate to such a state of being one of the "walking wounded." Whether they are of
an age with Plath (who would be in her early seventies) or a young woman still in college, they understand the discrimination directed toward women. Older women can remember what
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