Order of the Phoenix

"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" is from his collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight into Heaven. "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" is about a young Indian man named Victor who not only recently lost his job but has also found out about his father's death in Phoenix, Arizona. Victor is not very close to his father because he left when Victor was relatively young and did not try to keep their relationship steady. However, Victor still has a…

character’s name, Phoenix, has great significance in the short story. A Phoenix is “a mythological bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live another cycle of years” (“Phoenix Definition”). Phoenix also means “a person…that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation” (“Phoenix Definition”). In “A Worn Path,” Phoenix Jackson is…

equation, and the – symbol is used for Subtracting. In the Story, Phoenix an old Women that is from Natchez, Mississippi, Goes through Trouble going into the woods, to go all the way to town to get some medication for her Grandson that is ill from swallowing Lye. She has to pass by a White hunter who would hunt for bob whites, he would also be Racist because he had a Gun with him and he pointed it at her, then all of a sudden Phoenix sees a something silver falling from his pocket, and it…

Even though sometimes we are defeated by challenges they make us stronger and give us the ability to keep going. In the short story A Worn Path written by Eudora Welty we see how challenges come in many ways, and yet we see an elderly woman called Phoenix Jackson overcame them, weather it is the natural world, society or her own mortality. The character…

About the Author of “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” Sherman Alexie was born October 7, 1966, and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Sherman Alexie moved off of the reservation for high school and wanted to take up medical studies, but soon realized that he had a passion for poetry and writing. He has won numerous grants and awards for his writing such as the Sundance Award in 1998 for his indie film “Smoke Signals” and the National Book Award in Young People's Literature…

of his classmate and the rebirth of Voldemort, Harry is sent back to live with the Dursleys at the end of the school year. When we see Harry for the first time in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix he is once again alone, in the bushes outside of the Dursley's home (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix pg 3). Harry has received very little information from his friends about the events in the wizarding world as a result of Voldemort’s return and it is not until Harry is forced to use…

understanding for each of the critical lenses being looked at. Phoenix Jackson the protagonist of the story is a “very old and small”, also described as “old Negro woman” shows us the true meaning of what a hero is. She clearly shows this because she is going on an adventure into town so that she can get her grandson some help as he is very sick. Which then leads us to the call of adventure which is the grandson being sick, so Phoenix Jackson, the grandma, has to go into town to meet with a…

Fire. The phoenix. The hearth and the salamander. These items are all symbols in the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451. Fahrenheit 451, written in the year 1953, it is set 100 years after 1953 in a futuristic utopian society, and in this society, books are banned as well as burned. People who think for themselves are hunted down and arrested. Fahrenheit 451 follows a fireman, named Montag who started to think for himself. In his journey, various symbols are often found in the novel, and…

Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” tells the story of Phoenix Jackson, an elderly African Woman leaving in the south who takes on a journey into town in order to get medicine for her grandson. To many, the story of Phoenix’s journey seems to be a short, simple story with no exciting action taking place, and although that is true, the story itself exhibit the struggle faced by many African American back in the early 20th century and even today in the 21st century, the struggle of racism. Racism is not…

Phoenix Jackson is as worn down as the path she travels. She conquers many obstacles in her journey to get her grandson his medicine. The difficulties endured include racism, her old age, and poverty. The short story, “A Worn Path,” was written by Eudora Welty in 1940. The main character is Phoenix Jackson. She is described in the story as an African American woman from the south who is very old, frail, wrinkled and small. The story takes place in the 1930’s, many years after slavery…