Man against NatureThe Earth is everyone's home; plants, animals and humans. We all share the space that the universe has created and sometimes people forget that humans and animals share the same space and abuse the creatures that are their "earth-born companions" (Burns). Animals must have a very low opinion of those who come to hunt and destroy for sport. This is the basis for Sarah Orne Jewett's tale in which a young girl realizes the connection between her and nature. Sarah Orne Jewett lived a short life from 1849 to 1909 and is best remembered for the short story “A White Heron. " He created heroes of all shapes and sizes who help themselves and others, and as Shackford said, "All his stories are loose-plot narratives." One of his best stories "A White Heron" tells the story of Sylvia , a nine-year-old girl, who saves a heron from certain death Because Sylvia understood nature and the animals she lived with, she became a heroine that no human would ever know portrays the theme that man and nature must share the earth, represented through symbolism and conflict. Jewett portrays the theme of man versus nature through the use of symbolism. For example, “One thing is certain: his character has done a as beautiful summer growth as anything else on her farm" (Jewett). Sylvia learns to trust her feelings and does not give up on her grandmother and the hunter. Sylvia saved a white heron and her family from the hunter because she chose not to listen “an external voice and to listen to the internal one” (Billy). Sylvia learns to respect the world she lives in and the animals she shares it with. His grandmother says, “There's not a yard... of half a sheet... that leads to the heron. Sylvia eventually resolves her conflict as she climbs the large pine tree on which the heron's nest is located; “For her the pine becomes the tree of knowledge” (Griffith). Sylvia defies both her grandmother's common sense and the hunter's ignorance of nature, but she makes her decision based on her own appreciation of nature. Sarah Orne Jewett uses Sylvia in the white heron to illustrate her theme that man and nature must share the earth, and since man has the power to destroy most other animals, the responsibility to protect these animals resides in every person through symbolism and conflict, Jewett creates the story of a young girl who follows her conscience. Just like the mouse in Robert Burns poem, what would be his horrible opinion of humanity, the heron would have the story of a girl who saved him from destruction.