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A 3 page paper which examines the role of the narrator in Sarah Ornes Jewett’s short story The White Heron. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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ways, coming of age. She is a young girl living in the country and a young girl who makes a very difficult decision as she comes of age. This story
is told from the perspective of a narrator who has nothing to do with the story at all. The following paper discusses the role of the narrator in this short
story. The Narrator in Jewetts The White Heron In this story the narrator tells the story of this little girl, Sylvia. Sylvia has apparently come from a more
urban and industrious area and has come to live with her grandmother. In fact, the grandmother chose this child to live with her. It is "There, amid animals and forest,
she begins to feel at home and express her affectionate nature" (Church). But, the reader would only know that because of the narrator. Being that she is very connected, and
at one, with nature and animals means that she is not one to tell her story to anyone, much less tell anyone anything about herself. This is further emphasized by
the fact that "There is a reoccurring theme of Sylvias fear of humanity as well" (The Depressed Jalapenita). She is not a young girl who does well with other
people and clearly a young girl who does not talk to people often. Without the narrator her story would not be told. The narrator presents the images she sees, the
nature she senses, and the emotions and thoughts that come into the girls head. And only through this narrator does the reader understand that "Her closeness to the forest and
to the forest creatures is phenomenal" (Griffith). It is as though the narrator may well be the girl, but years later when she is an adult, still fearful of people
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