Essay on Character Analysis-a Worn Path

Having an older sibling is rough already, but having a brother that you have to worry about him breaking in and stealing valuables of your own, that's tough and the main character Gordie Jessup has to deal with the betrayal of his older brother, Chase Jessup everyday throughout Katherine Holubitskys’s novel “Tweaked”. Gordie’s efforts trying to fix his family are overwhelmed by Chase’s drug addiction and money debts he has with his dealers. There are many themes throughout the book.

But it is a stereotype to think that they are too fearful to take steps to get what they want. We might think that they have a lack of courage because of their condition and are scared to make any risky moves. Phoenix proves this wrong as well. Along the journey, she is presented with several challenges which are all very risky. First of all, she goes through a very rough terrain despite her old and small figure. There are such big chances of her falling, because she relies on a thin, make-do cane from an umbrella. The biggest risk in her journey was when she crossed the logs. “ Now comes the trial.” She had such bad eyesight, so she closes them and just walks. Phoenix proves to be very courageous because she’s taking a big risk just to cross the log. “ I wasn’t as old as I thought”. She shows confidence in herself and grateful that she didn’t fall, but doesn’t stop there, she continues along on her long, tiring journey. Similar to this she also risked her life getting stuck in the barbed- wire fence and when the hunter caught her stealing the nickel. Phoenix is both courageous and determined to get what she wants. This proves the stereotype that poor people are fearful and don’t have the courage to do something to get what they want, wrong. Phoenix risked her life several times for the sake of her

Most people accomplish difficult tasks with support systems such as family or friends. Phoenix knows she is alone in the world to care for her grandson. This knowledge of solitude makes Phoenix’s mission all the more difficult. The incident with the white hunter along her travel also demonstrates Jackson’s determination. As stated by Dennis Sykes, “Phoenix realizes that the importance of the trip far exceeds the possible harm that can be done to her brittle frame”(151). Phoenix’s ability to stare down possible bodily harm all for the sake of her grandson’s wellbeing demonstrates her heroic determination. By overcoming adversity, Phoenix’s determined character is revealed very well.

Not only is Phoenix selflessness she has endurance, in the article “A Worn Path” Analysis at Yahoo Inc. it explains that “she falls, gets back up and keeps on toward the goal of getting her grandson’ medicine”, even though she could have gotten killed she knew that her grandson needed her and she was the only one that could care for him. Nothing was going to stop her from getting to where she was going.

In the end we figure that Phoenix may be on a journey that really does not exist. We find out that maybe the grandson isn’t alive and that he has been dead for weeks. Whether or not Phoenix was aware she did not let life bring her down, whatever she was set to do she did and with great perseverance she has achieved her goal.

Phoenix shows determination by getting by all of these obstacles and getting to town. Her determination to get to town shows that she would not let anything get in the way of something she knows she must do.

She runs the risk of having that barbwire slash though her dress and cut her back to pieces. , if she was to get caught going under that fence, the consequences she faced could have been death. The obstacles on the path to Natchez were dangerous and Phoenix could have suffered serious injury. Any kind of injury suffered out in the open and alone like she was in the middle of the winter could have resulted in death. However, it is in the end that the reader sees just how precious her journey is and for the lover of her grandson moves Phoenix to town. It is the same type of unfair obstacles that Phoenix must have dealt with her entire life. Yet she made it through them all un-harmed and her spirit still intact.

He knocks her over, and a hunter comes to help her up. Even though the hunter is helpful, he is somewhat threatening. He then drops a nickel in which Phoenix picks it up without him noticing. Then he points a gun at her, and she stood straight and faced him when he did so. When he asked if she was afraid of the gun, she replied, "No, sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done" (DiYanni). The hunter even replied that she is scared of nothing, and she goes on her way. "Her perception of these obstacles emphasizes her intense physical, mental, and moral effort to complete this journey" (Heller). Phoenix is brave physically because she had to climb over logs, through thorn bushes, and a barbed-wire fence. She is brave mentally, because she can stay calm while in stressful situations like having a gun pointed to her face. She really cares about her grandson, and that motivates her to stay strong for him and to make it through these rough

She has two different condition through out the story. She gets calm and smart when she met the hunter and the nurse. But she gets slow and blind when she walking in the woods and talking about her grandson. She keep talking to herself during the journey, she wants all the animals and trees and bushes let her walk pass the woods, she get trap by the bushes because she can not see thing well. But after she fall into the ditch, she met the hunter, suddenlly she is able to watch a coin drop from the hunter’s pocket, and quickly pick it up without notice. And when she talking to the nurse and the hunter, she was acting, because the old lady knows when she speak cartain things, people will not bother her anymore. Phoenix Jackson is a wise women who live through the South North War, and her body condition is very healthy for a old women like her. But she gets slow when she thinking about her grandson, animals and trees in some way represents innocence and pure, which just like her grandson. I think it is the reason why she keeps talking to the animals and plants during the

At the beginning of the story, Phoenix is described as “Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin has a pattern all of its own numberless branching wrinkles…” (1). This description helps to verify that Phoenix is very old and this will be a difficult trip for a woman of her age. Therefore it is with sheer determination that Phoenix faces another challenge--having to cross a creek by walking over a log. This activity is a difficult

Phoenix also encounters numerous physical obstacles between her and her goal. Shortly after setting out, she becomes entangled in an obstinate bush. She fights what appears to be a losing battle. As Welty describes it, “Her fingers were busy and intent, but her skirts were full and long, so that before she could pull them free in one place they were caught in another” (315; 8). Phoenix seems to maintain a good attitude as she begins to talk to the bush: “Thorns, you doing your appointed work. Never want to let folks pass, no sir. Old eyes thought you was a pretty little green bush” (315; 8). As she does with all of her other challenges, she

Phoenix Jackson endures many obstacles along her journey through the worn path. When faced with hardship, she persevered regardless of her difficult circumstances. The reader watches her climb up and down a steep hill that was hard on her feeble body. Then, she comes to a creek with a log lying across it. The reader is aware that Phoenix has a hard time walking, but instead of giving up she faces this extremely dangerous and challenging situation as “…she mounted the log and shut her eyes” (Welty 645). When she gets to the other side she opens her eyes. Welty uses this challenge to show the reader that sometime one must rely on faith to get through trials. Next a barbed wire fence challenges her but she meets it without fear. Eventually, Phoenix encounters a white hunter who tries to persuade her to turn around by pointing his gun at her asking, “Doesn’t the gun

The second stage of her journey, the author shows Phoenix’s endurance as she stumble upon a dog with a lolling tongue while she was meditating. She endured its presence by “hitting him a little with her cane and over she went in the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed” (pg. 164). She also stumbled upon a white man who had her held back for a while. Phoenix showed her enduring by tolerating him without giving in to him wanted her to go back home. She was so focused on where she was heading.

when she felt like the journey was to much to bare. Even though Phoenix is a strong individual, the hills seemed like mountains trying to break her down. Once she reaches the top of the hill she rests only a moment to look at what is spread out before her. Eudora Welty show how Phoenix undergo the hardship of pain when she climbs the hill and does not let it keep her from making the trip. Even when she is in pain she keep climbing the mountain  hill because for her love for her grandson. Eudora Welty emphasized on Phoenix’s capacity to love in spite of the many elements of nature holding her back and her incurring troubles. Despite the hardship Phoenix faces through her journey to town she will overcome her troubles.Welty highlight the idea

Phoenix shows strength in the face of adversity when she faces many different struggles on her journey. One example of Phoenix showing strength through a hardship is when she still goes on the path knowing that there are dangers already on the path that she will have to take, but she takes this path so that she can go get medicine for her sick grandson. Phoenix has taken this path many times, and knows that there are things like thrones, and barbed wire that are going to get in the way on her path. Phoenix still takes the path and always finds a way to get out of the struggles that she is put through. Phoenix is a poor women, and she faces many hardships with being poor. Phoenix has to find unique ways to get through life because she faces struggles because she is poor. For example Phoenix uses an umbrella as a cane because she is too poor for a real one, she takes money, and has to be given money, but she does not let these things get her down. Phoenix stays strong because she knows that she can make a way if there is not a