Eudora Welty

Pathway She starts off slow and steady. Her pace is brisk, but this is only her warm-up. But with every step, she doubts herself, knowing this was a stupid mistake. Her shoes are too tight, her headphones are falling out, and she just knows she won’t be able to feel as great as she used to. She rounds a comer of the forested path, and she increases the sound of her music by a notch or two. She keeps on jogging, navigating tree roots and questioning why she even decided to go for a run. As the…

SA 2: "The Chrysanthemums" is a short story of John Steinbeck which reflects the frustration in the present life of Elisa Allen, strong and proud woman. This frustration arises from not having a child as well as from the dissatisfaction in a romantic relationship with her husband. The only possible way out for Elisa's frustration is her beautiful flower garden where she plants chrysanthemums. The author frequently uses chrysanthemums as a symbol as well as a number of other items in order to…

Determination doesn’t have an off-season. The Other Side of the Sky, The Song of the Wandering Aengus, and Barrio Boy all show their path of determination. In The Other Side of the Sky; Farah Ahmedi is determined to get her mother out of Afghanistan. In The Song of the Wandering Aengus; Aengus was determined after he saw a beautiful woman. In Barrio Boy; Ernesto is determined to learn English by his teacher beauty. The first text is a true story called Barrio Boy, Ernesto is learning the…

The momma bear tilts her had, staring at me through angry eyes. I can almost imagine the thoughts whirling around in her huge, furry head. She's wondering if I'm a threat to her baby, protecting him like any mother should do. The cubs quite a bit smaller, with light brown fur and ears that pop up over her head. He doesn't seem afraid of me, more like curious, wanting to explore more then fight. But the momma bear has a different idea, with her sleek, dark brown fur and steal eyes anyone would be…

This describes the journey of an elderly black woman named Phoenix Jackson who walks from her home to the city of Natchez to get medicine for her sick grandson. The landscape as Phoenix perceives it becomes a primary focus of the vividly evoked narrative, nature is depicted as alternately beautiful and as an impediment to Phoenix's progress. As she walks, she struggles against intense fatigue and poor eyesight, as well as such obstacles as thorn bushes and barbed wire. The combined effects of…

The situational irony in this story is when Phoenix finally arrives at the drug store to get medicine for her grandson, She can no longer remember why she traveled there. The sentences in the story explain that it because she is too tired but I think that might because she experienced too much during the traveling and forget what she really for. Like in throughout the day, some people keep trying to make money for their family but finally they just do not know why and only care about they money…

Draft The Story We Know by Martha Collins is a poem that exemplifies the constant and reoccuring patterns we are all exposed to in life; the dullness of work, the exhilarating adventures, but even more importantly, Collins knows of the familiar arrays in which we live and of our eventual endings to our stories. The Story We Know starts the poem off with the understanding that we: a collective audience , are aware of this story of life that she describes is lived similarly to her and in the first…

If the story, A Worn Path, would have continued, it would tell about her travel back home. Before the story ended, Phoenix Jackson was heading home to give her grandson his medicine. To continue the story, when Phoenix Jackson got back home, she sets the windmill, that she had got at the store with the ten cents that she had acquired on her journey to retrieve he medicine, down on a little table that was sitting beside her grandson, who hadn’t moved from the position that she had last seen him.…

When a family member becomes ill many people will begin to sacrifice all they have to see the person well again. Phoenix Jackson, in Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” not only gives up all she has but her dignity as well. Phoenix Jackson is an elderly African-American woman who survived the cruelty of slavery before and during the Civil War. She is described as plain, wrinkled, and socially unimportant. When her grandson becomes ill after swallowing lye Phoenix Jackson travels to the…

Seeds of an Allegory; A Cane, a Hunter, and a Worn Path Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is written about an old black woman named Phoenix Jackson who travels a long worn path to town where she can get medicine for her ill grandson. Many components of the story demonstrate a deeper meaning of the story. The symbols in the story could have been anywhere from Phoenix’s name to the ground she walked on, but some were more important to the underlying meaning of the allegory. Through the symbolic…