The Two Paths

Octavia and [the] Phoenix At first glance, the two stories A Worn Path by Eudora Welty and The Sky Is Gray by Ernest J. Gaines and the characters in them may not seem to be so comparable. Phoenix Jackson from A Worn Path and Octavia, mostly called Mama, from The Sky Is Gray, are actually quite similar in character but also different in other ways. They are both strong and compassionate, although Phoenix is more friendly than Mama. Both Phoenix and Mama display strength in their actions and…

Perseverance is a groundwork that provides the self-determination to accomplish dreams. Eudora Welty’s short story "The Worn Path" is set in the middle of the twentieth century at the time when African Americans were still facing discrimination. Welty tells the story of Phoenix, an old African American woman, who walks through the wilderness more often than not in order to obtain medicine for her sick grandson. The journey in to the town would not be very difficult to the average person.…

Venn diagram consists of two cycles that part of them overlaps, and this diagram is used to represent the qualities of Ku Dong-hyeok's character and the different paths that he can choose. In more detail, the one cycle represents the beliefs, ethics and morals that the police officers must have and the other cycle the corruption of the syndicate. The area of the overlap of the two cycles is no other than Ku Dong-hyeok. Now he has good and bad traits as…

There are many challenges one is faced in life that requires great strength and courage to overcome how we get through it determines one’s character. In the midst of it all finding oneselves can be difficult because we are so focused on the difficulties. In the Novel “Wild From Lost to Found on The Pacific Trail” by Cheryl Strayed the book is about a young women named Cheryl Strayed who loses everything and decides to go on a long distance hike on the Pacific Crest Trail a gigantic trail which…

The English 1A schema builders increased my appreciation and understanding of essays from 50 Essays, Lila, and “A Worn Path.” In Lila, some of the schema builders that I thought were very helpful were “Black Tuesday,” since it showed how inhumane prostitution truly was in the Depression Era. It is a Kinesthetic, Musical, and Visual schema builder. The woman in “The Cradle Will Rock - Nickel Under the Foot,” portrayed Lila as a woman who had to work through prostitution to survive, since it is…

Sex is biological, gender is cultural. For some of the world there are two genders as well as two sexes, but gender ambiguity, transgendered, the third sex flies in the face of the notion that the former is true. “The terms third gender and third sex describe individuals who are categorized as neither man nor woman who recognize three…

Many people who have read Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde always pick one of the two as the good guy, and the other as the bad guy. Typically, when thinking of the two, people respond by picking Doctor Jekyll as the good guy, and Mr. Hyde as the evil, no good villain; after all he is meant to be the lesser of the two evils. But when the two are compared side by side it seems that Doctor Jekyll is not the better of the two, but that Mr. Hyde is. Mr. Hyde does not hide his true self from the world like…

Venn diagram is consisted of two cycles that part of them overlaps and this diagram is used to represent the qualities of Ku Dong-hyeok character and the different paths that he can choose. In more detail, the one cycle represents the beliefs, ethics and morals that the police officers must have and the other cycle the corruption of the syndicate. The area of the overlap of the two cycles is no other than Ku Dong-hyeok. This means that now he has traits…

The Dark Knight is the story of the infamous “Batman” and his iconic rival the “Joker” in which the two fight for the power over the city. The Joker’s character is described as a “sociopathic, killing clown” because his actions and his scars have such an impact on anyone he crosses. Both roles are classified as incognito. Mysteries consume the ones who watch this film as to what is the actual story behind the scars? Or was the joker actually an unethical hero? And especially the most asked, what…

swarming the streets of California. With an immediate reaction to the notice Pizza man dashed over to the scene, he made it to the scene to find millions on millions of hedgehogs brawling over each other creating a huge wave demolishing anything in its path. Pizza man had been very confused on what to do, he had tried everything except one weapon he has never used in a crisis of any kind whatsoever, he went ahead and did the only thing he could think of that could solve this crisis, the…