Assignment task: Can you provide a well detailed response to this story?
A good response describes your reaction to the reading and how you understand the meaning of the story.
A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett.
When providing response consider these questions:
- Which characters could you identify with and why?
- What attitude does the author have to the world in the story?
- What social, cultural, or historical conditions influenced this writer?
- What symbols does the writer use to create meaning in the story
- How important is the place and time to the meaning of the story?
- How is the work related to problems in our present-day world?
- How is the material related to your life, experiences, feelings and ideas? For instance, what emotions did you experience when reading this story?
- Did the work increase your understanding of a particular issue? Did it change your perspective in any way?