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    Literary Analysis on "A Worn Path" In "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty‚ the protagonist Phoenix Jackson helps portray the theme that people will do anything for whom they love. Everyday people are going out of their way to make either a theoretical or literal journey to help someone they love. In the movie "The Notebook" a man tells the story of his and his wife’s whole life every day to his wife because she has Alzheimer’s and can’t remember who she is. He does this not only because he loves her‚

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    A WORN PATH This is a very powerful story set sometime after the Civil War I believe in the late 1860’s or 70’s for the old black women has stated that "I never did go to school for I was too old at the surrender." This leads me to believe that she would have been born somewhere around the 1850 and at the age of 14 would have been too old to go to school. It was time for Motherhood at that age. Her name is Phoenix‚ which by itself should be a hint to the reader for a Phoenix‚ was a large mythical

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    The Gift of the Magi by William Sydney Porter Xinyan Zhu September 2‚ 2012 Comp1102 /Fall Mrs. Chambers The Gift of the Magi by William Sidney Porter William Sidney Porter‚ better known under his pen name “O. Henry”‚ born September 11 1862 in Greensboro North Carolina. Accused of embezzling bank fund‚ Henry was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. During this dark period in his life‚ he begin his literary career with his stories that were to be collected in his first book

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    the arms of an Ogre. Upon crossing her path the princess falls sincerely in love with prince charming and desires nothing more than to devote eternity to gazing into his eyes‚

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    Reader Response in ‘A Worn Path’ by Eudora Welty I had chosen a short story entitled ‘A Worn Path’ by Eudora Welty. A Worn Path was about an old Negro woman’s ritual journey from the Old Natchez Trace to a town. The main theme from this short story is the hardship of life faced by Phoenix Jackson. From starting of the novel until the end‚ the Old Phoenix had faced many challenges in life. First‚ we could see the Old Phoenix had a long journey from her place to the town just for to take the medicine

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    On the surface Eudora Welty’ s short story‚ “A Worn Path"‚ is an account of an old black woman’s journey from Old Natchez Trace to Natchez‚ Mississippi. In fact‚ some readers may perceive Old Phoenix’s journey and only having ups and downs. However‚ a second level of interpretation indicates a powerful statement of how death and rebirth can be found in her hardship. This paper will be concerned with three allusions that substantiate the theme of death and rebirth: references to the Phoenix myth from

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    The story “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty takes place in the 40’s and is of an elderly Negro woman who makes her way on a familiar journey into town to obtain some medicine for her young grandson. In this story‚ Welty describes scenarios where Phoenix Jackson faces many conflicts‚ while heading to the rural part of town‚ with nature and society all while enduring her physical conflicts that make taking this journey a little more challenging than someone in their earlier years of age. I will

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    “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is told from a first person and third person limited point of view. This short story is about a old‚ African American woman named Phoenix Jackson narrating her journey through the Natchex Trace. She is on her way to get medicine for her grandson and faces many physical‚ emotional‚ and social obstacles. The author focuses this story on Phoenix’s perspective of her journey. Throughout her journey‚ Phoenix talks to herself‚ her surroundings‚ and often daydreams and has

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    The two stories‚ “The gift of the Magi” by O Henry and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant shared similar themes and ironies. In the story “The gift of the Magi” both of the characters‚ Della and James‚ sacrifice the most important things they had (Della’s hair and James’s watch) to give the other happiness to find out the gifts were useless in the end while in “The Necklace”‚ Madame Loisel sacrifices both her own and her husband’s youth to pay for her friend’s necklace that she lost just to find

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    that would otherwise seem impossible. Sophocles once stated‚ “One word frees us all of the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” This statement is the underlying factor that motivates the main character in Eudora Welty’s short story‚ “A Worn Path.” The story portrays an elderly woman’s journey to the city during a frozen day in December to obtain medicine for her grandson’s chronically sore throat. Welty uses strong symbolism throughout the story to depict just how influential love can

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