Eudora Welty A Worn Path
Determination, strength, hope, endurance, perseverance, and love are only a few words to describe the readers feelings while reading this story. The author, Eudora Welty, screams-silently through her gently placed words in story, “A Worn Path”. The inspiring and encouraging phrases spoken to someone, “never give up”, “keep fighting”, “never back down”, are the unspoken feeling through the characters perseverance, determination, and love. The tone in the story is displayed through life of a black, negro-woman, who faces daily obstacles, during a time when black Americans were treated unjustly and unfairly. The traveled path she is traveling parallels the obstacles that African Americans experienced while on their journey for racial equality.
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Phoenix Jackson was specifically chosen because of the literal meaning. The meaning of the name Phoenix is: A bird that built its own pyre and then was reborn from the ashes. The mystical bird itself, dies, and is reborn across cultures and throughout time. The words used to describe the bird are legendary, brilliantly colored, symbol of rebirth, and immortality which is seen to be illuminating the sky. The phoenix to build its own funeral pyre or nest, and ignites it with a single clap of its wings. After death, it rises gloriously from the ashes and flies away. The bird is said to symbolize renewal and resurrection, life in the heavenly paradise, Christ, Mary, virginity, the exceptional man. Early Christianity adopted the symbol due to its themes of death and resurrection’s, as an analogy of Christ’s death and three days later his resurrection. The earliest instance of the legend, the Egyptians told of the Bennu, a heroin bird that is part of their creation myth. The “solar bird” appears on ancient amulets and as a living symbol of the deity. Phoenix’s experiences on her journey or “path” is incredibly difficult, however, she fights with every footstep to push forward. Her strength to continue on this path of physical and emotional torture may appear to be an mythical or having special powers. The determination and “will” suggested almost appears to be immortal. Most would have given up when faced with the obstacles, such as racial prejudice, humiliation, and physical exhaustion are
Phoenix Jackson was specifically chosen because of the literal meaning. The meaning of the name Phoenix is: A bird that built its own pyre and then was reborn from the ashes. The mystical bird itself, dies, and is reborn across cultures and throughout time. The words used to describe the bird are legendary, brilliantly colored, symbol of rebirth, and immortality which is seen to be illuminating the sky. The phoenix to build its own funeral pyre or nest, and ignites it with a single clap of its wings. After death, it rises gloriously from the ashes and flies away. The bird is said to symbolize renewal and resurrection, life in the heavenly paradise, Christ, Mary, virginity, the exceptional man. Early Christianity adopted the symbol due to its themes of death and resurrection’s, as an analogy of Christ’s death and three days later his resurrection. The earliest instance of the legend, the Egyptians told of the Bennu, a heroin bird that is part of their creation myth. The “solar bird” appears on ancient amulets and as a living symbol of the deity. Phoenix’s experiences on her journey or “path” is incredibly difficult, however, she fights with every footstep to push forward. Her strength to continue on this path of physical and emotional torture may appear to be an mythical or having special powers. The determination and “will” suggested almost appears to be immortal. Most would have given up when faced with the obstacles, such as racial prejudice, humiliation, and physical exhaustion are