... the creek on a log with her eyes closed. This might be extremely reckless but at the same time it is also courageous. We know that Phoenix is fearless at gunpoint. Phoenix's most courageous moment is when she steals a nickel from an armed man who also has two vicious dogs with him. All these actions do seem somewhat reckless but, then again, ... admirable character trait is her devotion to her ailing grandson. Towards the end of this story we learn that Phoenix makes this long journey through the forest regularly for her grandson who needs the medicine that Phoenix obtains in the city....

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• Grade Level: High School

... cold December morning. Although we are know that she is traveling through woodland, the author refrains from telling us the reason for this journey. In the midst of Phoenix's travels, Eudora Welty describes the scene: "Deep, deep the road went down between the high green-colored banks. Overhead the live-oaks met, and it was ... , and she replies "Lying on my back like a June-bug waiting to be turned over, mister" (56) as she reaches out her hand. When Phoenix refers to herself as June-bug on its back, she is letting the hunter know how helpless she is. The hunter then lifts her up and ma...

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• Grade Level: High School

... I made my long trip" (870). And yet her sense of direction on the path comes automatically. Indeed the "path" is "worn" as a result of Phoenix's repeated trips to the town for her grandson's well being, and driven by her love for him, she will most likely make the travel the "worn path" ... there, her senses drifted away. A dream visited her, and she reached her hand up, but nothing reached down" (867). This experience suggests that Phoenix was perhaps "reaching" up to God, ready to retire from life. There also exists a hidden meaning to the title of this story. Perhaps the "worn ... pat...

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... sympathy to the Negro woman. She, like writers as Faulkner and James Baldwin, shows the strength of the Negro woman. This strength is built around the Negro woman. "Phoenix" is not just a name for a character. Miss Welty presents her as a symbol of strength in the old woman's spirit of endurance. Race and Racism in ... of me. This is one thing that shows strong Southern influences. (Wilson 220) Also race and racism was the fact that the female dentist when Phoenix walked up said "We do not serve or work on Negro patients". This suggests that there is just some hint of racism like that fo...

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... her inability to get angry, her humor, as well as her intellectual abilities. The last short story "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, an old woman, Phoenix Jackson, is described. Although this character does not possess the same physical abilities (she walks with a cane and wobbles from side to side like a penguin) ... as some of the other womanist, Phoenix Jackson is a womanist through and through. She makes a long, treacherous journey through woods and hills for her grandchild. During the journey she encounters a white man ... with a gun. When the man tries to scare Phoenix by pointing t...

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... chronically ill grandson. She strives forward despite frequent obstacles in her way that include her own failing health and the grandchild's slim chance of survival. Phoenix Jackson is "an old Negro woman" who continues forward over barriers that would not even be considered a hindrance for the young.This is a journey ... she must travel it again. She begins her journey to town on "a bright frozen day in the early morning" in December. The description of Phoenix Jackson frail nature at the beginning of this story gives the reader a glimpse of how difficult this trip is going to be for an ...

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... have only talked about race scientifically and some chose not to use science at all but factual, historic evidence from sacred texts. This paper will examine each idea to develop a synopsis that will intertwine the ideas for a greater understanding of race, slavery and religion. Part I Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks To Slavery CHAPTER ONE What is Race? "Differences in ... ...

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... a truly democratic America. They emphasized such liberal values as free speech and a "democracy of citizen participation."" But as the Vietnam War escalated student protest heightened and became more radicalized. Paul Potter of SDS said that the Vietnam War "mocked American freedom."" The Weather Underground went further. "We are in the heartland of a world-wide monster,"" they wrote in 1969. Our goal ... ...

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... Richard Bruce Nugent tells the readers of FIRE !! that Langston Hughes said to him on one of the almost forgotten evening walks that the Negro in America was like the phoenix and that some day he would rise from the fire to which America had consigned him. Cary D. Wintz says that in her eyes FIRE !! was a curious mixture of conservative and ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School