Question

a white heron by sarah orne jewett (excerpt) in the excerpt from this short story, a hunter comes to the house of sylvia and her grandmother. he is searching for a white heron. sylvia knows where the white heron lives, but she is not sure she wants the hunter to find the bird. she is soon faced with a dilemma. (1) \so sylvy knows all about birds, does she?\ he exclaimed, as he looked round at the little girl who sat, very demure but increasingly sleepy, in the moonlight. \i am making a collection of birds myself. i have been at it ever since i was a boy.\ (mrs. tilley smiled.) there are two or three very rare ones i have been hunting for these five years. (2) \do you cage em up?\ asked mrs. tilley doubtfully, in response to select the correct text in the passage. which detail best develops sylvias internal conflict? (8) the next day the young sportsman hovered about the woods, and sylvia kept him company, having lost her first fear of the friendly lad, who proved to be most kind and sympathetic. he told her many things about the birds and what they knew and where they lived and what they did with themselves.... sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he killed the very birds he seemed to like so much....

Explanation:

Sylvia likes the hunter's knowledge about birds but is conflicted by his use of a gun to kill them. This shows her internal struggle between her liking for the hunter as a person and her disapproval of his bird - killing actions.

Answer:

Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he killed the very birds he seemed to like so much.