Thursday, 6 December 2012

A Worn Path

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty is a story about a black women named Phoenix Jackson who travels a path to get to town , on her way she haves to over come alot of things along the way. While travelling into town its a cold winter day in December Phoenix imagines things that are not even happening such as a little boy trying to give her a piece of cake. When she runs into a man who helps her up he tells her its too far for her to walk all the way to town, but she knows she must go in order to get the medicine she needs for grandson.
Phoenix is old and having trouble seeing which makes her journey alot harder , once she get to the hospital  she is subjected to racism by another lady but she gets what she needs and heads back home to where her grandson is waiting.

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