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 In Sara Orne Jewett’s ‘A White Heron’, we are introduced to a shy, withdrawn and lonely young girl, Sylvia.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, shy finds herself torn between the longing for his affection, material treasures and her own devotion to the wilderness and the animals that have taken her in. It is not until Sylvia embarks on a dangerous midnight quest that she fully understands and embraces who she is. From the very ....