The Worn Path By Thomas Hardy Analysis

The use of this type of ironical satire is used in a way to show the discourse that one feels about the things that the gentlefolk are doing. The continuous use of the word “poor” to show what a lost cause and how unprivileged the gentlefolk must be, Wilkie Collins says, “poor souls...poor empty heads...poor idle hands.” The term poor is used often as a term to belittle someone, and Collins is using it as a coping mechanism to cope with the way the gentle folk are acting, in a sense “they are acting this way because they have something wrong with them, they do not know any better.” The passage then goes on to say,”... and dropping grit into all the victuals in the house…” The speaker knows that not all the ailments that they had caught in the wilderness. The use of the word “all” is an exaggeration by the narrator to furthermore show the tipathy with the gentlefolk’s way of

Dark words and phrases are initially sprinkled throughout the poem giving it a sense of despondence. For example, Oliver uses the phrase, “the dark burred/ faintly belching/ bogs” which describes the swamp as dark and grim (6-8). The imagery of the swamp is very dark because it symbolizes the hardships that people may have during their lifetimes. Crossing the swamp is a very difficult task, and Oliver compares it to the challenges of life. Therefore, she states “My bones/ knock together at the pale/ joints” (13-15). This once again demonstrates the difficulty of crossing the swamp as Oliver faces many physical challenges including the pain of her old bones. The author transitions from these dark and negative images to illustrations of hope and growth in the next few lines. For example, she describes “a poor/ dry stick given/ one more chance by the whims/ of swamp water” to take root and grow (28-30). This demonstrates how people may face tremendously difficult obstacles to overcome in their lifetimes similar to a dry stick having difficulty taking root. However, these challenges allow people to attain success. Without struggle, there would be no achievement in life. It is the hardships in life that truly allow people to appreciate success once it is achieved. Oliver concludes the fabulous piece with more uplifting and positive imagery of a

     “A Worn Path” is, in my opinion, a very good story. It tells of an old black woman and the struggles she’s had to deal with throughout her life. The author names the woman Phoenix after a mythological bird that died and then came back to life through its ashes which makes it immortal. The author makes the woman “immortal” because she continues to have something to live for, her grandson, whom she apparently considers her biggest gift.

Little does the reader know that the stones being collected by the children would be used to stone an innocent woman to death in the end of the story. Similar to how the author used diction to establish mood, she used imagery as well.

The setting of the poem is in the kitchen. In this case the speaker is saying

He picks up a piece of tan or beige stone, curved and smooth on one side but on the other it was rugged and damaged, like an old man's flesh. At one time could have possibly been part of an old

A Rock- The rock symbolizes what is used to execute the person chosen for the lottery (death). In the beginning of the story the children were making piles of their favorite stones. The stone is the murder weapon. Stoning a person to death is a quick process. Anyone of any age can fling rocks which makes killing someone with stones relatively simple.

The tittle “Folding Won Tons In” may seem like a simple tittle at first that doesn’t really have any symbolic or connotative meaning. However, based on your own perception, the simplicity of the tittle itself could suggest that it holds much more meaning than a procedure that describes how to make food. The simplicity of the tittle could suggest that making food could mean much more than just filling your stomach. A simile is used in the first line of the poem when he states “I’ve seasoned the pork like I imagine my mother would.” In this simile, he is comparing the action of seasoning the pork to a fragment of his memory of his mother doing it. This suggests that he admires his mother in the sense of her advanced cooking techniques. When he describes the sheets of skin as ‘doughy’, it suggests that the texture is very smooth and covered in flour. This is imagery because it appeals to the sense ‘touch’. Not only is this phrase “Sheets of doughy skin,” imagery, but it is also alliteration. The repetitive s sound in front of ‘sheets’ and ‘skin’ add a nice ring to the phrase. The purpose of the alliteration is to bring focus to it. The phrase afterwards states “I only have the skill to buy.” That means that he wants the readers to notice the suggestion that even if he tried his best, he would not be able to create good

And the narrator and the Bowden family begin to indulge in desserts that have words inscribed on them. The narrator finds the pies to be quite interesting in this regard, “the decorations went beyond all my former experience; dates and names were wrought in lines of pastry and frosting on the tops. There was even more elaborate reading matter on an excellent early-apple pie which we began to share and eat, precept upon precept” (Jewett 114). And she is equally interested in the gingerbread house, “the most renowned essay in cookery on the tables was a model of the old Bowden house made of durable gingerbread” (Jewett 115). The pies and gingerbread house serve as the climax for the narrator feeling welcomed, because they mirror her via the text inscribed on them. The narrator eating the desserts with words on them is symbolic because it represents the world of Dunnet and the narrator’s world being blended together. The desserts symbolize the importance of food in the community of Dunnet, which is significant to them because it represents their hard work and self-sufficient way of life. And the words inscribed on the desserts symbolize the narrator’s job as a writer in the novel, which is important to her because it is how she

In this set of materials, the reading passage describes three theories about the function of the carved stone balls artifact; dating from the Neolithic period, while the listening passage challenges these theories.

In the story of Phoenix Jackson, an old woman whose great courage on and overcoming great obstacles is brought to life in the short story from “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty. Now some of Phoenix’s most compelling evidence of perseverance comes from the path she has chosen to take and having the willpower to never give. Old age is not always the end of the road, but the journey it takes to get to that age is worth living for.

First, the reading states that the carved stone balls were weapons used in hunting or fighting. The professor opposes this point by saying that all the waepons from the neolithic period like the arrow have signs of war around the weapons head like cracks, these signs mean that they have been used before in fighting, while the carved stone balls don't have these signs, but they are very well preseved without any damage.

In “The Grandfather and His Little Grandson,” a Russian folk tale, the old and the weak grandfather tries to eat but one day, he drops his bowl with his food in it. The grandfather Son’s wife did not like that when he dropped his bowls he broke the bowl and spilled everything in it. After that she made him use a wooden bowl. She also made eat behind the stove and not with everybody else. The grandson’s name is Misha, so one day Misha was playing with wood and the parents asked him what he was doing, Misha then said that he was making a wooden bowl so that when his parents get older it will be for them to eat out of. After they

Love a commanding emotion of unfathomable affection that can play a prominent role in peoples’ lives. It is an emotion, so a person cannot see or hold it, but has the force to affect people. On one hand, it pushes people to go out of their way, and when they have nothing left, it makes them continue. On the other hand, it may be to overcoming that it blinds the person, and he or she does not know the full consist of the situations he or she is in. In Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path," Phoenix Jackson is perceived as determined and loving due to her actions, yet at the same time, she seems innocent and at loss of the situation she is in.

There are several different interpretations of A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty. Some believe that it is a story about life and death or about strength. While others believe it is about the love that a grandmother has for her grandchild. Although I am not completely opposed to the opinions of others, it is clearly a story that demonstrates a theme of racial inequality and the struggles African Americans had to endure to obtain freedom. The path itself is a symbol that makes it apparent that this is a story about racism. There is also evidence in the appearance of the main character, Phoenix, a black woman who is wearing a red bandana, apron, and a striped dress. Lastly, the supporting characters in the story such as, the white hunter,