What Is An Example Of A Worn Path

Knowing secret information can be a very enlightening thing. Knowing information that someone else does not helps make the reader feel more powerful. Such is the case when the reader knows of the mythical Phoenix and then reads “A Worn Path.” Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” the story of an elderly grandmother’s journey to the doctor’s office for medication for her grandson, explores allusions to mythology, including the character Phoenix and her journey.

A significant event in one's life forces a person to reevaluate their current situation and decide how they will adapt to a new situation, or cause them to look back on the steps they took to get into that situation. In life as well as in the literature Crosswalk In The Rain, and THE TENT DELIVERY WOMAN’S RIDE, people have to adapt to what is happening in their lives, despite conditions they may have been through in the past. In life at some point there will be crossroads that a person must cross, they can either look back at what they have done to end up in that position or they can look forward and see what they must do to continue moving forward.

In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, we are given a piece of art that simply will leave you clueless unless, you understand the pain and frustration the man is going through; when choosing what route he feels will give him the most joy. In the poem a man is walking through the woods and he comes upon a fork. He who wants to take both roads chooses the route that he feels is traveled less on. Little does he know that both road have been equally traveled on. He who travels on the route that has fresher leaves lies to himself, by convincing himself that he will come back and take the other route. Though it was a very stressful and a hard decision for the man to make, many people are put into very similar situations like in John Updike’s A and P and as well as in James Joyce’s Eveline. Both Sammy and Eveline find it troubling to make a decision that will change their life completely.

Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” is more symbolic of a choice one must make in their life in attempt to foresee the outcome before reaching the end, than it is about choosing the right path in the woods.

Life is more than just a walk in the park, we are not always that lucky. Throughout one persons life there are always ups and downs, but what really make a person are the actions we take when we encounter obstacles. Life is an obstacle course in which we have to overcome in our lifetimes. In A Worn Path an older woman by the name of Phoenix Jackson takes a long road full of hardships to achieve a goal, which is to get medicine for her grandson. Not only does Phoenix of A Worn Path represent struggle but how we overcome this struggle to achieve a sense of achievement or a goal. Throughout time, people have been going through life’s obstacles and their willingness to

In the Robert Frost poem ‘’The Road Not Taken’’ there is a pervasive and in many ways intrinsic sense of journey throughout. In such, the poem explores an aspect associated with human decision, or indecision, relative to the oxymoron, that choices with the least the difference should bear the most indifference, but realistically, carry the most difficulty. This is conveyed through the use of several pivotal techniques. Where the first such instance is the use of an extended metaphor, where the poem as a whole becomes a literary embodiment of something more, the journey of life. The second technique used is the writing style of first person. Where in using this, the reader can depict a clear train of thought from the walker and understand

Certain judgments made by others can influence a person unfavorably, especially if they’re being scrutinized very closely. The notion that generates a person’s path can lead them in many different directions. This does not mean that due to these pressures, the person their self will choose that path. The passage to self-discovery as well as one’s own purpose in life takes time,

The short story A Worn Path is literally a story about an old woman taking a walk during the winter over a path she has known so well in order to get medicine for her grandson. When we magnify this story takimg a much closer look through an allegorical lens, we find this path to be representational of the old woman’s life. This paper will aim to provide symbolic references in order to support my reading that the path represents Phoenix Jackson’s memories throughout her life. This includes the trials and tribulations she encountered from slavery to freedom which she is now reflecting on while actively dying.

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, Frost shows the everyday human struggle to make a choice that could change the course of one’s life. In his poem, a person has the choice to take one road or the other. One road is worn out from many people taking it, and the other is barely touched, for fewer have taken that road. Throughout the poem, the speaker learns that just because so many other people have done one thing, or walked one way, does not mean everyone has to. Sometimes you just have to go your own way.

I found this story to be sad. I know that during the 1940s and 1950s there were a lot of race and racism especially in Mississippi. Phoenix’s journey into town show how Southern whites were in this era. A white hunter helps her out of the ditch but patronizes her and dismiss her journey “I know you old colored people! Wouldn’t miss going to town to see Santa Claus!” This white hunter also taunts her by pointing his loaded gun at her and asking “Doesn’t the gun scare you?” Phoenix remains calm and steady causing the hunter to exclaim “Well, Granny you must be a hundred years old, and scared of nothing,”

In “A Worn Path,” Jackson is assisted by several helpers that allow her to triumph in the face of tests and challenges. One of Jackson’s challenges involved the physical pain of falling in a ditch. After falling, Jackson encounters a hunter who “lifted her up, gave her a swing in the air, and set her down” (Welty 3). This hunter allows Jackson to allow on her journey by pulling her out of the ditch she is stuck in. Additionally, near the end of Jackson’s journey, she struggles to tie her shoes. In order for Jackson to continue on her journey, she must find someone to tie her shoes, and for this a helper is present. Jackson finds a young lady to help, who then “put her packages down on the sidewalk beside her and laced and tied both shoes tightly”

Eudora Welty perfectly paints the picture of the main character who is a weak, elderly African-American woman with poor eyesight, by the name of Phoenix Jackson who is traveling down a long road with just a cane that eventually leads her into the city to obtain medicine for her grandson who swallowed lye. Phoenix has to overcome many struggles and obstacles throughout the road that leads her into the city. By the way that she handles herself and her determination to make it shows that she has been through adversity before and she can overcome whatever is thrown at her. Phoenix is a selfless woman that shows great courage, and there is a lot from her that we can learn.

It is not possible to tell whether the life of a person will be successful or not. For this reason, people live in anxiety and the fear of the unknown. The speaker says that this walk is personal and everything else does not matter. Besides, he describes that the direction where the road is leading has hardships. He uses the poetry style of symbolism to metaphorize the concept of destiny.

In the short story “A Worn Path” there is this old lady that walks a long distance and faces plenty obstacles in her journey. Like her dress getting stuck on thorns in the woods, which she precisely untangles her dress very calmly and very precautiously because she doesn 't want to mess it up. She encounters a scare from dogs which ultimately ends her falling into a well  and a huntsman guy helped her out and held a gun to her face which she didn 't really phase from it since she told him that she 's had other guns pointed at her more closer than that. Her purpose of walking that long was for her sick nephews medicine. Once she got to the doctors office, they questioned her why she walked that long and she didn 't reply at

By choosing the harder path, the speaker declares his rebellion against the popular opinion as represented by the other road. He decides not to conform to society and takes up a less popular choice. When considering his choices the speaker shows the typical human reaction. He considers taking both paths at first. He says, “Oh I kept the first for another day”, but later confesses he “doubted if [he] should ever come back” (13-15). Thus the poem’s significance lies in the speakers making a decision by choosing a road and moving on with his life. The act of choosing the road represents his uniqueness and the fact that he is always moving forward, even without stopping.