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    what lengths will someone ever remember their home and recognize the things they’ve once known? Stories have been used throughout the ages to not only create a tale that can cause to the reader great imagination and wonders‚ it is also common for them to hide several meanings and twists to the adventure. Through the portraits of her life‚ and the perils of her adventures‚ Jean Rhys’ has incorporated many of the paths of her life into the illustrations she had developed into short stories. These representation

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    2Symbolism in Literature Published by susansteppe‚ February 27‚ 2011 Symbolism in "The Road Not Taken"‚ "A Worn Path"‚ and "Used to Live Here Once". When looking at the short story and poem it is impossible to see it all in a literal form. There is always some sort of symbolism that occurs within the body of the text‚ but what is symbolism. It can be defined differently by many people. Even when looking at a dictionary it does not typically give a thorough answer. It is because symbolism

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    Welty‚ "A Worn Path" (52) Take a look at the quest theme outline on the handout from class. Is Phoenix on a quest? Justify your answer. What is Welty’s message (theme) to her readers? What symbols do you find‚ and how do they connect to the theme? You meet Phoenix as she begins a long quest to a town near her home. She is an elderly woman. Her eyesight isn’t very good and she moves at a slow and steady pace along a very well used path. While on this journey she talks to herself giving herself

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    story; it tells you what the story is about (Clugston‚ 2010). In the story I Used to Live Here Once‚ the author uses her descriptives of recalling how the water flowed‚ and the roads being wider but carelessly taken care of as her way of reaching back to when she was alive. She describes the day as being “a fine day‚ a blue day” (Clugston‚ 2010). This symbolizes the peacefulness she feels and calmness that surrounds her. I believe the ultimate theme of this story is the transcendent journey this woman

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    A Worn Path by Eudora Welty Copyright Notice ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group‚ Inc.‚ a division of Thomson Learning‚ Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. ©2007 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic‚ electronic‚ or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ taping‚ Web distribution or information storage

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    Theme and Symbols of “I used to live here once” ENG125 Introduction to Literature Instructor 10/1/2012 Theme and Symbols of “I used to live here once” The story “I used to live here once” is a short story based on a woman’s journey returning to a place she once called home. The author uses symbols throughout the story to demonstrate to the reader that the woman is no longer alive. The ultimate theme is not discovered until the end of the story. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss

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    Priscilla Quinteros “A Worn Path” Perseverance is a valuable trait in life‚ especially in this day and age. It is important to achieve your goals‚ your dreams and everything else that is worth striving for obstacles such as‚ racial prejudice wanting equality and condescending towards the poor that make perseverance even more necessary. In Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” an old women named Phoenix Jackson takes a long trip to get medicine for her grandson who is ill from his throat. She

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    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

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    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 be. From the beginning‚ Welty reiterates

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    One of the stories that I choose was  I Used To Live Here Once by Jean Rhys. The story is a short story that is told in third person format. In the beginning of the story the woman is looking at the stepping stones and remembering them as she is walking across the river. When the narrator says ‘She was standing by the river looking at the stepping stones and remembering each one” it lets you know that the young lady in the story has been there before. The narrator of the story is giving a sense of

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