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The racial comments in the story we see when Phoenix encounters the hunter. The hunter makes racial remarks and he acts like he is stronger and more powerful than Phoenix Jackson. When he sees Phoenix he asks, “On your way home” and when Phoenix is making clear she is not, the hunter assumes that she’s going to town to see Santa Claus and calls her Granny, “I know you old colored people! Wouldn’t miss going to town to see Santa Claus” (145). The hunter makes a remark to her race and because Phoenix

Attendant: Receptionist in a physician 's office. Nurse: The Physician 's nurse.she gives Phoenix the medicine for her grandson. Grandson of Phoenix: Child who once swallowed lye. He requires medicine to treat his throat. C) Point of View: A Worn Path is short story. It is written by Eudora Welty in third person point of view. The writer reveals the story through the main character Phoenix Jackson which Phoenix Jackson talks to herself in dialog. The writer sometimes reveals to Phoenix ' mind

Back in the spring of 2012 I was at a crossroads do I reenlist in the army or do i simple just take my discharge and move on to a new path with a slower pace. The military had been all I knew for the last eight years. These where my brothers we had been to hell and back together. We came face to face with devil in the Middle East and walked away from it uninjured. However the continuous rotations overseas would break anyone down three months in country then six months back in the states it was a

Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” tells the story of an old woman named Phoenix and her journey to town to obtain medicine for her grandson. However, her grandson is deceased and she is continuing to deal with the tragic loss. There are two key pieces of evidence; first, her grandson swallowed lye, a very caustic chemical which burns skin and tissue on contact, and second, Phoenix forgets the reason she walked to town in the first place. These are the signs of some form of cognitive impairment. Based

“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is the story of an elderly African-American woman named Phoenix Jackson. It takes place in Natchez, Mississippi, in December 1940. The story is about Phoenix’s difficult quest to get medication for her sick grandson. On her journey, she endures various hardships such as walking to the city on a cold December morning and being humiliated while on her journey. On this difficult journey, Phoenix encounters both impolite people and others who are willing to lend a hand

helps the reader understand a deeper meaning of the central message that the author is trying to portray. In this case, Eudora Welty uses symbolism like a powerful tool. A manifold of symbolic connotations can be made in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. “A Worn Path” is a short story about an old black woman named Phoenix Jackson. She has to make this long journey to town in order to get medicine for her ill grandson; she is all he has got. On her journey to town she faces a lot of obstacles

was an American author of both short stories and novels including one short story that will be discussed in this paper “A Worn Path”. “A Worn Path” was written in the south around the early 1940s 1941 during the time when African Americans were still being treated as if they were not as important as any other white person of the same age, gender in the south.A Worn Path” may seem like just a story about a loving old grandmother trying to take care of her grandson by taking a long journey to receive

When using symbolism, objects or even people can be used to represent your answer or explanation. For example, Uncle Sam (U.S) was a symbol for the United States when they were going to war, and they put up the famous poster of Uncle Sam pointing his finger at you with the slogan on the bottom of the poster that says “I want you!” Food can also be used as a symbol. For example, fried chicken, hot dogs, and hamburgers are foods commonly consumed in America, while in other countries, they probably

the process. Two of her most famous short works are “Death of a Traveling Salesman” and “A Worn Path”. In her works like “Death of a Traveling Salesman”, Eudora Welty reminds her readers that modernization and work isn’t always a good thing and that we should enjoy our lives. In “A Worn Path,” Welty demonstrates that anyone can accomplish anything if they struggle and work hard for it, even if the path towards success is a difficult one. However, in today’s society many people have forgotten these

Basic Theory In the previous chapter, we introduce about the indoor positioning system techniques and the research directions. In this chapter we will describe the basic theory related with the navigation and pose estimation systems for example, the coordinate system, the dead-reckoning method, the characteristic of Wi-Fi radio signal propagation etc. For all of the basic ideas are very important thing to understanding the configuration of our research as follow; 2.1 The Local Coordinate system