White Heron

The Country Values The conflict of the story "The White Heron" arises when the little girl (Silvia) must conscientiously chose between revealing the location of the heron's nest, or seek to allure her new friend. In the first part of her story, Jewitt establishes a bound between Silvia and the hunter. It is interesting how at first Silvia perceives the hunter as an "enemy". Her weariness is briefly justified by alluding to bad past experiences …

…her moral values. We know that later on Silvia long for his company because she thinks about him. However, she also knows that her love - and her life - would have been wasted on him because she would "love him as a dog loves!". In this story, Jewitt reveals to us the wisdom that we should stand by our moral values, and that in the long run we will be justly rewarded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**