People from all over the world love to read American short stories. In Jack London’s “The Law of Life,” Edgar Allen Poe’s “Story Of An Hour”, and Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”, controlling themes are obvious as to what the author’s purpose in creating the plot.
In Jack London’s “Law of Life”, the major theme in the story is the concept of death. In the short story, Koskoosh states, “I am as a last year's leaf, clinging lightly to the stem. The first breath that blows, and I fall. My voice is become like an old woman's. My eyes no longer show me the way of my feet, and my feet are heavy, and I am tired. It is well.”(London 772) Koskoosh is trying to describe that he is the last of his age and he is barely able to keep up with the rest of the …show more content…
Society. While the old black lady, Phoenix, is walking into town, she faces some challenges across the way. Phoenix decides to sit down and meditate by a ditch. Until “ A black dog with a lolling tongue came up out of the weeds by the ditch. She was meditating, and not ready, and when he came at here she only hit him a little with her cane. Over she went in the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed.”(Welty 670) So as the effect of this, the granny fell into the ditch and was unable to get up. “ A white man finally came along and found her—a hunter, a young man, with his dog on a chain.”(Welty 670) Later “ Phoenix heard the dogs fighting, and heard the man running and throwing sticks. She even heard a gunshot.”(Welty 670) In the midst of all that, the hunter dropped a nickel and Phoenix squatted down to pick it up and continue walking into town. When she gets to town, she heads towards the nurse’s office to get medicine for her grandson. And the nurse ignores her and doesn’t help out with Phoenix’s needs. Eventually she decides to help out and give Phoenix the medicine that she needs for her grandson. Overall with the hunter and the dog to the nurse that wouldn’t help her, those are things she struggled with in the
In Jack London’s “Law of Life”, the major theme in the story is the concept of death. In the short story, Koskoosh states, “I am as a last year's leaf, clinging lightly to the stem. The first breath that blows, and I fall. My voice is become like an old woman's. My eyes no longer show me the way of my feet, and my feet are heavy, and I am tired. It is well.”(London 772) Koskoosh is trying to describe that he is the last of his age and he is barely able to keep up with the rest of the …show more content…
Society. While the old black lady, Phoenix, is walking into town, she faces some challenges across the way. Phoenix decides to sit down and meditate by a ditch. Until “ A black dog with a lolling tongue came up out of the weeds by the ditch. She was meditating, and not ready, and when he came at here she only hit him a little with her cane. Over she went in the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed.”(Welty 670) So as the effect of this, the granny fell into the ditch and was unable to get up. “ A white man finally came along and found her—a hunter, a young man, with his dog on a chain.”(Welty 670) Later “ Phoenix heard the dogs fighting, and heard the man running and throwing sticks. She even heard a gunshot.”(Welty 670) In the midst of all that, the hunter dropped a nickel and Phoenix squatted down to pick it up and continue walking into town. When she gets to town, she heads towards the nurse’s office to get medicine for her grandson. And the nurse ignores her and doesn’t help out with Phoenix’s needs. Eventually she decides to help out and give Phoenix the medicine that she needs for her grandson. Overall with the hunter and the dog to the nurse that wouldn’t help her, those are things she struggled with in the