Sarah Jewett was raised in a fairly wealthy home. She was mostly preoccupied with helping her dad as a physician. She didn't go the school much and got most of her education through her dad's library. She starting writing at a fourteen, secretively, tales and sketches. Her stories are geared around people in New England. She doesn't write based on literary naturalist but based on suffering and defeat. She also reflects on how that nature reflects good will in people's life. You will find out how nature is affected in this short story the Heroin.
Heroin is a story based on a young girl who is in love with nature itself. She doesn't do very well with handling people and had moved in the rural area to escape the city. One day there is a boy that comes by and she is scared of him. Later on they do become friends. He is a hunter and an ornithologist in search for a special bird. The way that he goes about captioning this bird makes Sylvia very uncomfortable. He wants to shoot the bird and mount it like a trophy. He offers her ten dollars if she would help him find that bird. At this time ten dollars would be a lot of money. Instead she doesn't help him find the bird even though she knows where the bird is.
I really like the moral of this story because I hate trophy haunting. The only way that a person should be justified for killing an animal is if they are going to eat the meat. There is nothing worst in life than to kill something just for the act of killing. I honestly feel that people that kill animals so they can have a trophy on the wall should pay a fine. I am so glad that Syliva saw fit to spare this bird from being murdered.
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