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 with "city" boys since Silvia had spent the first eight years of her life in a "crowded manufacturing town." Also the paragraphs surrounding their encoounter have a tone that suggests that Silviais in danger.

The fear in Silvia reflects the common attitude of the people from urban society of thosse days, whhich considered men outrigghht violent. This prejudice attitude

Likewise, the hunter, another typical citizen of urban society, had its own views of country people. A paragraph which shows this reads: "It was a surprise to find so clean and comfortable a little dwelling in this New England wilderness. The young man had known the horrors of its most primitive housekeeping, and the dreary squalor of that level of society which does not rebel at the companionship of hens."

By resolving the story passage with the opposite of what the reader expected, the contrast between "urban and country set of values" is shown.

It is not entirely "for a bird's sake" that she doesn't reveal the location of the white heron nest, but because of the lose she would acquire from surrendering her will and selling out her moral values. We know that later on Silvia long for his company because s

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Approximate Word count = 548
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)