American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1021 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"A White Heron"
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The idea
A girl living with her grandmother meets a young ornithologist who offers money for the location of a rare heron. She climbs a great pine at dawn, finds the nest, and refuses to tell him. Loyalty to the woods beats money and attraction.
In practice
A tree climbed, and a secret kept.
Where people slip
The refusal is the story's argument.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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