In the short story “A White Heron”, Jewett uses symbolism to connect Sylvia’s silence to animal rights. The hunter only sees animals as objects for his collection bragging “I have shot or snared every one myself” (Jewett 14). With these words he reduces living beings to trophies, really showing a mindset that goes against the animals’ right to exist for their own sake and not for someone else. In contrast, the heron is described as a bird that “floats and wavers, and goes back like an arrow…to his home in the green world beneath” (Jewett 18). This image really says a lot because it turns the…