LITERATURE QUESTION PLZ HELP! In “Chapter Six: Spring 1918 – Winter 1919: Payaetonookaedaed-geezis: Wood Louse Sun – Pauline,” Pauline fails miserably at stopping Fleur’s contractions and the baby is born prematurely.

Discuss the mystical journey to the land of the dead that takes place after the child is born (cite answer) and state whether or not this actually happened.

RESOURCES: https://www. litcharts. com/lit/tracks/chapter-3-fall-1913- spring-2014-onaubin-geezis-crust-on -the-snow-sun, https://www. coursehero. com/lit/Tracks/chapter-5-fall-1917- spring-1918-summary/

arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

explanation:

i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think they will sing to me

if this is a true or false question its true

that’s the kind of bug henry was; and if we’d a had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d a fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.”