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What do you think is real about realism?

What do you think is real about realism The White Heron ' is an excellent example of realism , more specifically , about its variety called local color realism . According to Washington State University , local color or regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters , dialect , customs topography , and other features particular to a specific region (WSU 2007 . The main focus in these stories is often the region rather than the individual character , and events closely reflect those typical in a certain area

Sarah Jewett is known to be an author

who is in love with New England countryside . Her story The White Heron ' is a clear tribute to the area . The writer is appreciate of the beauty of her favored US region The woods were already filled with shadows one June evening , just before eight o 'clock , though a bright sunset still glimmered faintly among the trunks of the trees There was the huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight (Jewett 1997

She also takes care to describe the living styles in the area

It was a surprise to find so clean and comfortable a little dwelling in this New England wilderness . The young man had known the horrors of its most primitive housekeeping , and the dreary squalor of that level of society which does not rebel at the companionship of hens

The cow that is the girl 's faithful companion is another proof of simple lifestyle in the area . The relative poverty in which the family lives...

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