A Worn Path

The Wizard of Oz written by Frank Baum uses a lot of color description to allow the reader to picture the location that Dorothy is in. It starts with the gray land, gray sky, gray houses that are all around in Kansas were the story starts. It allows a vision of a storm coming, stormy weather. Dorothy's home is about to be hit by severe storms. When Dorothy wakes up after the cyclone, the skies are bright, patches of green and green banks. She meets men and women in blue and white…

lift a finger because of her black housekeeper and her respected stance in her community. In my essay, I will touch on both topics. Phoenix Jackson and Emily Grierson are two strong influencers and respected figures in their communities. In A Worn Path, when Phoenix Jackson reached the clinic in the city, the receptionist and doctor’s assistant repeatedly called Phoenix “Grandma”…

He hesitates and wonders for a long time and questions himself—which path should I take? In reality, this is a symbolic poetry of meditation. It involves important decisions that were taken in the course when people have to abandon one desirable thing to deal with another. “If each reader were the traveler. His decision…

faced throughout one’s life, comparing the choice to lead or follow the crowd to two paths. Although "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is commonly understood as an optimistic look on individuality, a careful examination of the symbolism, meter, and imagery reveals it is really an in depth view on the way people deceive themselves when recalling the choices made throughout their lives. The symbolism of the path represents difficult decisions made throughout one’s life. Frost compares this…

made the correct choice by choosing a certain path, and the juxtaposition of good qualities between two roads. The poem creates an impossible decision between two seemingly similar roads that lead separate ways, leaving a traveler unknowing of where it will end up, and that one may perhaps be more favorable. The reality of the poem is that there is no right choice in which path is taken. The poem's subject is that progression is essential and that any path taken will take one on a road that will…

repeatedly forces us to make a choice at difficult moments When at crossroads, it makes us take a leap of faith and choose a path to take The point of this paper is to connect Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, to the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. The two pieces of literature are related to each other, for they both discuss the means of choosing the right path to take when at crossroads. While the two pieces of literature differ greatly, they share the common thread of making the…

Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is a poem about a man who has come to a point in his life where he has to make a major choice, a choice in which there is no turning back. He tries to predict the consequences of one choice, but then suddenly chooses the path that he believes uncommonly chosen, although they are equal. He told himself he would come back to this situation another day, but later realizing that once he made his decision, he could not come back. Although it is unclear whether the choice…

school so when we moved to our current home, I didn’t think we would stay more than a couple years, but thankfully that was not the case. When we first settled in, I noticed a path leading into some trees behind our condo building and knew I had to explore. As I walked through the initial thicket of trees on the dirt path, I saw several bird houses in a field of flowers with another trail leading deeper into the woods. I took that trail and soon found that it broke out into three more trails,…

the speaker comes across a fork in the road when walking in the woods on an autumn day. Presented before him are two alternatives, with one option reasonably obvious and the other more subtle. He anticipates that one path has been traveled on more often than the other; however both paths are equally untraveled. While the speaker desires to follow both routes, he can only choose one, thus he arbitrarily makes a choice and hopes to make the best of that choice. Conversely, he emphasizes over the…

life can have substantial effects on their future, despite the fact that they may not realize it. This idea is essentially illustrated as the speaker is initially faced with a dilemma: there is a fork in the road, although he can only embark on one path. The poem is essentially an extended metaphor about how any decision that a person makes during a present moment will determine their subsequent prospects. The first stanza begins with the repetition of the word “and” in order to accentuate the…