1. Caitlyn & Andrea
A White Heron

2. QUOTE
“Today I have grown taller by walking with the trees.” Karlee Wilson baker

3. What or Theme Statement
In Sarah Orne Tewtt’s “A White Heron” the author dramatizes the young heroine’s adventure by showing through a struggle, humans and nature can come to a unified relationship as they manifest their beauty through each other.

4. How or Literary Elements
Nature Imagery
Tone Shifts
Figurative Language
Compound- complex sentence
Simple Sentence
Diction with pure connotation
Third person omniscient
Perspective change

5. Simple sentence shows the connection between nature and humans
Line 10: “Sylvia knew it well”
Zealous for nature
Line 27: “Sylvia felt her way easily”

6. Nature Imagery show the struggle in the beginning before the shift
Lines 20-21: “with her bare feet and fingers, that pinched and held like a bird’s claws to the monstrous ladder reaching up, up, almost to the sky itself.”
Lines 25-27: “a bird fluttered off its nest, and a red squirrel ran to and fro and scolded pettishly at the harmless housebreaker”

7. Tone Shifts show how humans and nature manifest their beauty through each other
Zealous until line 40
“old pine towered above them all”
“first she must mount the white oak tree”
“Slyvia began with utmost bravery to mount to the top of it, with tingling, eager blood coursing the channels of her whole frame”
Lyrical in lines 41-54
“through all its ponderous frame as it felt this determined spark of human spirit creeping and climbing from higher branch to branch.”
Triumphant in lines 55-68
“She stood trembling and tired but wholly triumphant, high in the tree top.”
“There was a sea with dawning sun making a golden dazzle over it.”

8. Figurative Language reveals unified relationship yet struggle between nature & human
Metaphor: Line 27: “ harmless house breaker”
Personification: Line 44-46: “as it felt this determined spark of human spirit creeping and climbing”
Simile: Line 55: “ like a pale star”

9. Compound Complex Sentence shows the balance created
Lines 55-58: “Sylvia's face was like a pale star, if one had seen it from the ground , when the last thorny bough was passed, and she stood trembling and tired but wholly triumphant, high in the tree-top.”
Alliteration shows emphasis

10. 3rd person omniscient shows how humans and nature both have feelings and are unified
Line 10: “Sylvia knew it well”
Line 27: “Sylvia felt her way easily”
Line 41: “The tree seemed to lengthen itself”

11. Diction with pure connotation show the balanced and unified relationship
Lines 68-69
“church steeples”
“white villages
Shows a balanced world, unified relationship

12. Literal perspective change shows the unified relationship
Line 8: “old pine towered above them all”
Line 58: “high in the tree top”
Line 67: “Westward, the woodlands and farms reached miles and miles into the distance; here and there were church steeples, and white villages; truly it was a vast and awesome world. “

13. How We Can Relate
Hiking at
young life camp