In “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett, the character of the hunter demonstrates the theme of speciesism. Speciesism means treating animals as less important than humans. The hunter comes from an industrial world where people are often materialistic and think in a superficial way about nature. He does not respect the heron as a living creature. Instead, he says, “they’re stuffed and preserved, dozens and dozens of them and I have shot or snared every one myself.”(Jewett 14). He takes pride in hunting and collecting birds. This behavior shows that he sees the heron only as a trophy or…