Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett

By Kathi Mitchell

​Realism and regionalism kept going even after modernism began to take over the thoughts of most writers.​

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The Country of the Pointed Firs

Multiple Choice

What are the emotions that are most seen in modernism?

• Bewilderment, despair, disillusionment

• Hope, seeking new horizons, peacefulness

• Passion, violence, destructive thoughts

• All of these

While other authors were despairing and commenting on the meaninglessness of life, Jewett celebrated nature.​

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​Do you have to be a treehugger to love nature?

​Maine didn't inspire that kind of emotion.

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Multiple Choice

Which of these stories did Jewett write?

• Life on the Mississippi

• Flight

• The White Heron

• The Far and the Near

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Faulkner challenged his fellow authors. "...the voice...can be one of the props...to help him endure and prevail."​

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​What kind of stories do you like to read/watch?

​William Faulkner

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Multiple Choice

What did Faulkner most want authors to give people?

• an escape from reality

• a challenge

• a scare

• hope

​The White Heron is a country story. It's central character has been rescued from a stultifying city life. Is the city always bad?

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Was the country the only place for hope?

Multiple Choice

Which place was the scene of the worst parts of Dexter Green's story?

• Sherry Island

• The golf course

• The Jones' home

• NYC

Is nature just better, or is the influence of humans just really bad?​

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​Stephen Crane and Jack London?

​Nature vs. civilization

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Open Ended

Before 1900 nature was the scariest place. What changed to make the city nasty?