White Heron and Other American Stories (Penguin Readers, Level 2)

by Sarah Orne Jewett

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In A White Heron, Sylvia's new friend is excited about a strange, white bird, but will Sylvia tell him where she lives? In The Story of an Hour, a young woman is told of her husband's death. The third story, Luck, is about a famous Englishman. The fourth story, The Complete Life of John Hopkins, is about people in the Big City, and in The Tell-Tale Heart, a man is very, very afraid!

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The girl whose name is Sylvia is poor at communicate with people. She goes to her grandmother's house and her friend is only cow which her grandmother feed. One day young man come her house and Sylvia and he became friends. But he is hunter and he wants know where heron is. Sylvia knew it but she doesn't tell him because he will kill them. Then he disappointed her. She lost friend but that's fine with her.
I think sylvia suffer from which she should choose youngman or heron. I wish she could have many friend.
This story is one of story in this book. So it's easy to read.
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This book have five stories.
And I like 'A White Heron' and 'Luck'.
'A White Heron' had main character.
Her name was Sylvia.She was shy girl.
She knew nest of heron,But she didn't tell this for young man.I think her choice was good because if she tell that, the heron would be killed.
'Luck' is interesting story also.
Scoresby was fool man. But he was respected from other people because of luck.
I want to have luck and go well like him.
A white Heron is the first of five great American short stories. A white Heron is a short story by Sara Orne Jewett, first published by Houghton, Mifflin and company in 1886. It is a story of a young city girl named Sylvia, who came to live with her grandmother in the country. She meets a young ornithologist hunter seeking to find a rare bird he has heard has been spotted in the area. Sylvia wants to protect the birds from the hunter. In the end the hunter fails to catch the bird hunter in the White Heron.
A main character;Sylvia of this book is quite complex situation.If I were her,I don't know what to do.
I think it is difficult to decide which friends is more important.
I want her to make friends more and more.
And I want her not to give up her dream.

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Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was born in South Berwick, Maine on September 3, 1849. Unable to attend school because of arthritis, she learned about coastal life in New England as she accompanied her father, a doctor, on his rounds. He encouraged both her reading and her writing. When she began submitting fiction in 1867, using the pseudonyms A. D. show more Eliot, Alice Eliot, and Sarah C. Sweet, her chosen topic was often the life and people of her native, rural Maine. Her first published story appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869 and her first short story collection, Deephaven, was published in 1877. Her first novel, A Country Doctor was published in 1884. Her other works include A Marsh Island (1885), A White Heron and Other Stories (1886), A Native of Winby (1893), Tales of New England (1894) and The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). She stopped writing in 1902, after a fall left her with severe head injuries. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage on June 24, 1909. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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