A Worn Path Presentation
Transcript: A Worn Path was published in 1941 in a book with a series of short stories called A Curtain of Green. These short stories reflected the lives of people who lived in Mississippi. by Aaron Hill The short story A Worn Path written by Eudora Welty, is about a old woman named Phoenix Jackson, who lives in the country and has to travel through the woods to buy her grandson the medicine he needs. "A Worn Path" Presentation Works Cited Phoenix Jackson is the main character of the story. She owns the qualities of determination, kindness, respectability. Determination: Traveling through the woods. Traveling up a hill, attacked by a dog. Kindness: Buying her grandson a toy. Its December Respectability: Man scaring away the dog. Woman on the street tying her shoe for her. Historical Connection Character Analysis Literary Terms Cultural Context: The story takes place in Mississippi. Gives off a southern type of feel Third Person: The narrator gives the perspectives and details of Phoenix's journey. Motivation: Needs to buy her grandson his medicine Description: The environment around Phoenix and her interaction with it Dialogue: Phoenix converses with characters in the story that she meets "A Worn Path by Eudora Welty." Short Story Criticism. Ed. Anna Sheets. Vol. 27. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 331. Literature Criticism Online. Gale. Winston Salem State University 19 march 2014 "Eudora Welty (1909-2001)." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 319. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012. 204-205. Literature Criticism Online. Gale. Winston Salem State University. 19 March 2014 "Eudora Welty" Photograph n.d "Google" The Mississippi Writers Page. Web. 20 March 2014. Mississippi Public Broadcasting (2009, April 8) Eudora Welty | MPB [Video file]. Welty, Eudora. "A Worn Path." Literature: A Portable Anthology Third Edition. 3rd Ed. Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn, Jack Ridl, Peter Schakel. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 216-223. Print. 1. Mar. 2014 Welty was born in Jackson, Mississppi. In Jackson, she had a job at a radio station and wrote columns about society for a local newspaper in Memphis. As an author, most of her stories take place in Mississippi and talks about the community and family. Summary of short story Author's information
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