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Thesis Statement: Sylvia’s nighttime quest is really a journey into herself. In Sara Orne Jewett’s ‘A White Heron’, we are introduced to a shy, withdrawn and lonely young girl, Sylvia. When Sylvia has a unlikely encounter with a handsome young hunter, sh ....

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.... attempt to play hide and seek, and as the child had no playmates she let herself to this amusement with a good deal of zest.” This quote lets us know several things. Sylvia does not have any playmates; in fact, we get the impression that her best friend is her grandmother’s cow. The story soon gives us another piece of vital information about Sylvia. “ “‘Afraid of folks,’” old Mrs. Tilley said to herself, with a smile, after she had made the unlikely choice of Sylvia from her daughter’s houseful of children, and was returning to the farm. “‘Afraid of folks,’ they said: I guess she won’t be troubled ....