After reading the short story, I liked how it was split into two sections which helped me understand what was going in the story in a better way. When reading the title, I thought a white heron as a beautiful creature and creates a sense of beauty. I found it weird that the grandmother and Sylvia allowed a stranger to stay at their home. Now a days I would never let a stranger come in my house under no circumstance. I think that Sylvia doesn’t expose the heron because she knows if the hunter sees the bird that he might shoot it because he told her that he would shoot it if he sees it. She may have also not exposed the heron because she may be on herself. It states “She has bare feet and fingers (209).” This is just like birds claws so this
