Climbing a Tree in A White Heron by Jewett

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Ever since the first person to climb Everest, many courageous people have been climbing, mountains, cliffs, and canons. This one special little girl decides to climb a humble tree creating a new journey for both the girl and the tree. In the passage The White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett the little girl climb a magnificent tree. The author uses languages and selection of details to make the climbing of the tree into a dramatic adventure. The little girl is Sylvia and she is insignificant to the tree. The author made Sylvia into a Hero through the climbing of the tree. First the author talks about the call to adventure. Sarah begins the story with, ?Half a mile from home, at the farther edge of the woods, where the land was highest, a great pine-tree stood, and the last of its generation.? This sentence is a run-on that shows how great this tree is. Also in the passage the author tells us that Sylvia always wanted to know what is like on top of the great tree and that she often laid her hand on the great rough trunk and looking up wistfully at the tree Sylvia?s dramatic adventure beg...

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