Patharooneys: A Short Story

A worn path is a story about a woman named Phoenix Jackson who needs to go a journey to town to get medicine for her sick grandson. It is a trip she has made before many times before (hence the title A worn Path) but there is something special about this trip, something different. In this paper I plan to dwell into the symbolism behind the Legend of the Phoenix and its relationship to her journey in the story. The legend of the Phoenix is about a fabled sacred bird of ancient Egyptians, said to come out of Arabia every 500 years to Heliopolis, where it burned itself on altar and rose again from its ashes young and beautiful; symbol of immortality. I think this story also represents Christian beliefs because the setting is

In this short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, I will be analyzing symbolism. In the story “A Worn Path” the author uses symbolism to create a figurative explanation of the occurrences in her journey. This story has distinct symbols from myths, historical, and biblical events. The character Phoenix Jackson has various trials to go through on her way to town to get more medicine for her ill grandson.

"Phoenix Jackson: Mind Over Matter" Novelist Eudora Welty is often studied and adored by many readers; her much deserved recognition comes from her brilliant, deeply compassionate, and lively stories and novels (Ford 36). Like many of her stories, Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" is set in Mississippi. In "A Worn Path," Welty focuses on an old woman's journey to Natchez and on the many obstacles that she encounters along the way. Phoenix is going to town to get medication for her beloved grandson. But he trip is difficult because nature and her handicaps are making it hard for her to reach her destination. Nevertheless, the old woman boldly continues along the equally old path, struggling every step of the way. Even

The famous short-story, A Worn Path, has enlightened many readers since it was published in 1941. This story tells the tale of an old woman and her long adventure to town. She experiences many obstacles her journey and people who make her consider giving up, but she keeps her head high and continues on. Welty’s inspiration struck when an elderly woman walked past in the distance on her way through the countryside. “A Worn Path” is an uplifting tale that shows true persistence and determination; something that humans should all strive to execute in their day-to-day lives.

As I am waiting for the baby train to pull up to the train platform over the loudspeaker I hear, “ Anyone waiting for the train it will be late due to a stampede of moose on the train tracks.” So as I’m waiting I look down the tracks and see the stampede of moose running towards me, so I pull out my laser gun from my pocket and start shooting at the stampede. When I kill all the moose the baby train rolls in and runs over all the moose throwing the moose all over the place. I step onto the train getting ready to leave Detroit, Michigan, and going somewhere I don’t know where I’m going...

Jeff had won the battle and now there are only two contestants.In the third round Jeff chose the pokemon blastoise and the rival chose golem the pokemon golem Jeff just caught and that is good for Jeff because rock pokemon are weak against water pokemon in the end Jeff barely won so he is the pokemon league champion. Now Jeff just has to do his next goal and he will be so happy he has to finish the pokedex the only pokemon Jeff needs to catch is farfetched so he goes to the forest and looks far and wide and then Jeff hears something and he looked up in the tree and saw a farfetched in the tree and he used charmeleon to fight it and then uses a ultra ball and catches him. Then he goes back with his friends and they lived happily ever after.

In doing so Johnny stabs and kills one of the soc’s and the others flee. With help from a friend, Ponyboy and Johnny are able to leave town, they end up on the top of a hill where there's an abandoned church. At the church Ponyboy debates with himself, dealing with whether or not he should turn himself in, and how this will affect Johnny and his family. Johnny and Ponyboy decide to leave the church with the friend who helped them escape to get lunch. When they get back, the church is on fire, there was a class on a field trip that had stopped on top of the hill to have a picnic, when it erupted into flames. The teachers did not realize that there were still about five kids left in the church, but when they got the news both Ponyboy and Johnny ran towards the church to help them. Throwing kid after kid out of the window, all of them got out safely, besides Ponyboy and Johnny who were left unconscious. In the ambulance all Ponyboy could think about was Johnny where he was, how he was doing and what happens next, then he goes unconscious again. When Ponyboy wakes up, he is at the hospital looking into the eyes of Sodapop and

Thesis: “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is one of the best short stories to incorporate different

“It was December—a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods.” The action takes place in Christmas time, around the 1940s, on the trail from southwestern Mississippi to the city of Natchez. A Negron woman names Phoenix is on her way to the Natchez town, her grandson swallowed Lye, as a result, she needs to find medicine for him. The story is about the selfless love.

Three   kids go into slender woods to get a jackpot of candy, but little did they know that slender man was in that place but they will soon find out. when they were in the woods they ha ha ha  they looked up they saw, bodys  drip with the blood of the past trying to kill they heard die die die little girls and three two one boooooooooom!! they saw a puff of smoke and a sign slender manner and bang slenderman came out of nowhere and killed a kid!! they saw their friend s  they went into the manner. little  did they known when you walkin you don’t come out . skeletons and bone shanks you core get out while you

Johnny got up slowly pulled the switchblade out of his back pocket and stabbed Bob Sheldon and killed him.When Ponyboy became conscious he looked at Johnny and Johnny said ‘’I killed him Pony I killed him’’.Ponyboy said ‘’I think I going to be sick’’.They went to go find Dallas at Buck Merrill's house.They find Dallas and Dallas told them to go to the church at the top of the hill and buy a week supply of food so they went to the church.Johnny went to the store and brought back bologna,bread,cigarettes,gone with the wind,and poker

Werewolf goes toward the wooden hut and go into it without thinking about anything but only hoping that he will get help. Inside the wooden hut he finds only cloth he makes the best out of it and cover his hand, slowly stopping the blood from leaving his body. As the werewolf is resting he feel a sensation of being watched he quickly turn around to look behind he finds a woman wearing a purple close from her toes to her neck. The werewolf look at the woman face he see a great amount of angry for him, he ask her the reason why she is so angry. Soon as those word came out of his mouth, she kick him on his chest as he went flying across the room breaking the wall and landing on the pond behind the hut.

2011080257 尹珠英 Book Review---- “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty The author, Eudora Welty was an award winning American author who wrote short stories and novels about the American South. Her first short story appeared in 1936, and gradually she began to e published in small, then regional and general circulation magazines. She published collections of her short stories and began publishing novels as well.

One day two friends were walking to the arcade right around their house. Their names where Bailey and Chiara. Bailey has long dark curly hair and wears glasses. Chiara has slanted eyes and is wearing a blue headband. They have known each other since they were three but now they are both 11. They went into the arcade and split 100 coins. The first game that caught their eye was Q*Bert. The thought he was the cutest thing. So they started walking towards the game, when someone pushes them out of the way. Bailey falls down and realises she has scraped her knee on the carpet floor. Bailey got up strong and went over and pushed the boy's back. She says, “Oh sorry, did I push?” this quickly turns into a fight. They are going back and forth. One of the boys pushes Chiara

Nine hours later, school is finally over. I didn’t feel like taking the bus home so I walked home. Few minute later I heard a sound. BOOM! I ran to the scene that the explosion happen at and saw a black hairless monkey. What type of monkey is that? “Ah, monkey.”The hairless black monkey said. Come. I wasn’t sure he was talking to me, so I just walked up to him. Do you want this banana? I answered sure why not. But he was looking at me crazy. So, I took the banana out his hand and ate it. Then he said, “See you tomorrow for your checkup.” When he was done talking to me I left.