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uchuflowerzone's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
cradams19's review against another edition
4.0
Great story about different views of nature and a girl's loyalty to it.
jeccareads's review against another edition
3.0
This didn’t resonate with me as much as I’d hoped but the concept was cool.
skoppelkam's review against another edition
4.0
My name is Sarah Jewett, and while I am not named after Sarah Orne Jewett I’ve certainly always felt some kinship to this New England writer and tend to pick up her books when I see them. First of all, this edition is stunningly printed. I loved it first as a physical object. The short story within is lovely, and seems to me to be about choosing nature over the values of capitalist-patriarchy (Sylvia is offered ten dollars and the adoration of a man who wishes to add the heron to his taxidermy collection, and while she isn’t sure why, something in her can’t bring herself to give up the location of the heron). This story reminds me of the sense of wonder and wildness that children feel in nature, and reminds me that the natural world cannot be owned or collected, only felt.
hope_draconic_reader's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
Disclaimer: I read this for my American Literature since 1865 class.
While I understood this story far better than the last story I read for my class (Editha by William Dean Howells), it just didn’t interest me at all. I think the author accomplished what they wanted to but I didn’t really care about it. This story just wasn’t for me.
While I understood this story far better than the last story I read for my class (Editha by William Dean Howells), it just didn’t interest me at all. I think the author accomplished what they wanted to but I didn’t really care about it. This story just wasn’t for me.
themockingbard's review against another edition
5.0
Short and incredibly sweet, this is the kind of story I hope to one day read to a child.
“The murmur of the pine’s green branches is in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron’s secret and give its life away.”
“The murmur of the pine’s green branches is in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron’s secret and give its life away.”