A Worn Path

Secret Path - Journal 3 For the last song of the Secret Path, Here, Here and Here, indicates the number of victims and miseries in the dark past of residential schools. Allowedly, the word - here - repeats itself 26 times with distinct beginning; for instance, “I hurt here, here and here” symbolized that numerous children suffered in 80 discrete but homogeneous residential school. Likewise, the title - Secret Path - inspired me a lot. Confessedly, Secret Path represents the drainage to the…

fictional character”. Characterization is an important literary device that authors used to construct and highlight certain features. In the short story “A Worn Path” Eudora Welty uses the literary device of direct and indirect characterization to portray the character of aunt Phoenix. An early December morning phoenix Jackson is walking along a path through the Pinewoods. On Phoenix is an example of a perfect strong and independent character proven by use of characterization. Eudora Opens her…

Honestly, I am an undergrad student at MCPHS-Boston, and to tell you the truth, unless you are naturally intelligent, and/or willing to make big sacrifices and go through hard struggles, this college is not for you. I am not telling you this because I am not a hard working, unmotivated, or lazy student, who is angry at the school for receiving bad grades. It is more because I have experienced this school and have found out many things that would have made me not come here in the first place had…

I 'm lucky, crazy lucky. To be living a dream, to have found it so young, for it to be afforded by hard work and minimum wage, to be healthy, and to have hiked so many miles, with such great people, it 's more then anyone deserves. All I can do is soak it up, learn from my blessings, and become better through them. After three months on the trail the daily routine becomes monotonous. It becomes easy to overlook beauty, to put my headphones in, my head down, and walk right by the greatness around…

long distance to obtain medicine for her grandchild. Even in cold weather, when the frozen earth is slippery, she makes the trip. Her journey, the worn path she follows, demonstrates her love for the child. Phoenix travels over many different kinds of surfaces, from sand, to wagon trails, to sidewalks. She also encounters many obstacles along her path, from the thorns to the stream crossing, to the hunter, scarecrow, and the lone dog. Some of the obstacles are foreseen and most are surprises to…

may come from, everyone encounters a similar journey. The journey that is heard in stories is symbolic to what anyone may go through in life. In the story “A worn path”, an old women goes through many obstacles as she is on the pathway to acquiring what she sought after. In order to better convey the hero’s journey in the story A Worn Path, Eudora Welty uses characterization, symbolism, and conflict. In the story characterization is used to describe the main character Phoenix Jackson. Every…

A Great Journey An Analysis of Eudora Welty’s, A Worn Path Why do children never value what their parents or other elders do for them? Why do teenagers only think of themselves, and never stop and say thank you to those who help them? Many people say it is because children and teenagers are ungrateful beings who do not appreciate or respect the help others give to them. However, maybe it is not that children and teenagers do not know respect; maybe it is simply the fact they do not know how…

purposeful, sentimental and many more attitudes. Readers can discover or determine the author’s feeling towards his or her characters through tone; thus greatly impacting the reader’s the likings for the characters of the story. In the short story, A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, the author uses a wide variety of tones to depict the story of an old Negro lady who makes many trips to Natchez, Mississippi in order to attain her grandson’s medicine. One of the story’s tones is humorous and it is…

A “Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a strong regional and ethically expressed story written from the perspective of a senile elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson. Ms. Jackson undertakes a journey every year around Christmas to the city of Natchez in order to attain medicine from the doctors to help heal her grandsons inflamed throat. Though she undertakes this journey in the hope of helping cure her grandson’s condition it becomes clear through the text that her grandson has died and she is still…

flicked through the breeze, the stale, dusty grass chafing my scales as I slithered across the well-worn path. Silently, I scanned for my breakfast, tongue gliding out to sense the mouse’s location. As I hunted, I became conscious of a slight reverberation through the ground, an assured indication that humans were awake and ready to spoil my morning. I slid back into the tall grass, avoiding the path as I felt the hikers grow near. Having practically given up on my rodent meal, I was surprised…