Sarah Orne Jewett began writing at an early age inspired by The Pearl of the Isle of Orr written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Jewett began to write in the style of the author he was inspired by and so fell in love with the writing style that encompassed almost all authors of his time, local color writing. Local color writing is a style of writing that became popular soon after the Civil War. Many writers began writing focusing on the lifestyle and nature in the surrounding areas and regions. As mentioned by The Norton Anthology: American Literature Volume 2, local color writing embodies the depiction of "... topographies, people, linguistic patterns, and ways of life of the nation's distinctive regions" (412). A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett definitely fits into each of the categories mentioned. Topography is the characteristic of the terrain in an area. Such features may include rivers, mountains, lakes, hills, forests, etc. A White Heron is full of references to Maine's topography, and more specifically to Maine's coast. The first sentence of Jewett's A White Heron gives the reader a preview of the appreciation Jewett has for his home state of Maine, "The woods were already full of shadows one June evening, just before eight o'clock, though a bright sunset still shone." faintly among the tree trunks” (413). While this description is not specific to Maine on the surface, it is specific to Jewett's interpretation of the woods at sunset in Maine, and the beauty of writing in color is that each reader will imagine their own sunset based on their own woods in their own country. region. Jewett was just beginning her description of the land around her, and as the story progresses, in the center of the paper... it is also clear that the white heron represents the true beauty of the region, though it is elusive and cannot be seen not even by an expert ornithologist, it is seen by Sylvia. Sylvia's sighting of the white heron is Jewett's way of expressing that the true beauty of a region can only be discovered by those who are so familiar with the region that they can appreciate every aspect of nature's beauty and once that every meter of land is known, only then can the true beauty of the region be appreciated and in this case that beauty is represented by the white heron. Jewett's A White Heron is an excellent example of local color literature because it represents everything that local color literature should be. Contains characters and dialects specific to the Maine region (Mrs. Tilley), as well as excellent descriptions of Maine's topography and the beauty of the region.