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        <title><![CDATA[A story completely free of authorial commentary and intrusion, "A Worn...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A story completely free of authorial commentary and intrusion, "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty is thus a controlled narrative open for different interpretations, one of which is that Phoenix is a character of heroism.  Like her name, the old woman has a courage that allows her to rise above the obstacles in her path as she sets forth in her quest to obtain medicine for her sick grandson.
The heroism of Phoenix is unconscious because her...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["A Worn Path" is an exquisitely controlled story of unconcious heriosm....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["A Worn Path" is an exquisitely controlled story of unconcious heriosm. Explain
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:54:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain what a critic from the historical school would emphasize in "A...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain what a critic from the historical school would emphasize in "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:12:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this story, Phoenix Jackson is an elderly black woman who has lived...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this story, Phoenix Jackson is an elderly black woman who has lived in Southern Mississippi since some years before the Civil War. Born into slavery, she had been "too old" to go to school at the time of Emancipation. Although many decades have passed since she was freed from slavery, Phoenix's society still exhibits racist attitudes that can be identified in the story through subtle details.
For instance, Phoenix is never afforded the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Worn Path," how are the elements of poverty and racism portrayed?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Worn Path," how are the elements of poverty and racism portrayed?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:53:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to the story, "...she...had to go through a barbed-wire fence....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to the story, "...she...had to go through a barbed-wire fence. There she had to creep and crawl, spreading her knees and stretching her fingers like a baby trying to blimb the steps" (paragraph 16). What would be the significance of Welty's comparing this old woman to a baby?
Phoenix's age is emphasized from the beginning of the story when she is described as having eyes "blue with age" and skin with a pattern of "numberless...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:53:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[She crawls through the barbed-wire fence like(a) a baby(b) a soldier(c)...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[She crawls through the barbed-wire fence like(a) a baby(b) a soldier(c) a fox]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:20:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is the characterization of  A Worn Path by eudora welty]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what is the characterization of  A Worn Path by eudora welty]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:03:43 PST</pubDate>
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In Eudora Welty's "A Worn path" the foreshadowing that is most...]]></title>
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In Eudora Welty's "A Worn path" the foreshadowing that is most obvious is inthe first paragraph. See below:

"It was December—a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods. Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:22:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the foreshadowing in "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the foreshadowing in "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:58:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["A Worn Path" Character Study Activity]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[(a)write a precise well-developed sentence that states as fully as...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[(a)write a precise well-developed sentence that states as fully as possible the theme of the story.remember to avoid cliches or oversimplification.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:26:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Close Reading Assignment: “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this poignant story "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty the old lady...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this poignant story "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty the old lady Phoenix  Jackson makes a long and arduous journey across the countryside to the town of Natchez.  On the way she meets a black dog with a "lolling tongue." She hits the dog lightly with her cane, and the effort knocks her off balance and she falls into a ditch.
The dog's owner, a white hunter, happens by and helps her out of the ditch. When he hears that she is attempting to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:20:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the irony in "A Worn Path"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the irony in "A Worn Path"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:30:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[During the story, Phoenix interacts with each of these three characters,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[During the story, Phoenix interacts with each of these three characters, all of whom are white. Through these incidents, the racial elements in the story are developed. However, each time Phoenix interacts with the three, her own character is developed, as well, and we come to know and respect her even more.
The incident with the hunter and his dog shows how frail and vulnerable Phoenix really is as she makes the long journey into town on the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:23:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why do you think the hunter is in the story? The lady on the street? The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why do you think the hunter is in the story? The lady on the street? The nurse?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:55:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Phoenix Jackson is an elderly woman, a bit infirm, but feisty and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Phoenix Jackson is an elderly woman, a bit infirm, but feisty and determined.  She sets out on a journey to get medicine for her grandson, a journey that takes her through a forest where there are many threats to her safety and her life.  She does not give up on her assigned task, however, overcoming all obstacles, even when she is frightened.

"Old Phoenix said, "Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:30:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What actions or speeches are used to bring out the character traits of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What actions or speeches are used to bring out the character traits of Phoenix Jackson in "A Worn Path"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:54:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When she makes her difficult and dangerous trip to town to get the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/worn-path/q-and-a/name-atleast-four-antagonists-story-worn-path-89189</link>
        <description><![CDATA[When she makes her difficult and dangerous trip to town to get the "soothing" medicine for her grandson, Phoenix Jackson must overcome numerous obstacles and forces that oppose her. The physical barriers she must overcome include the stream she must cross, the barbed-wire fence she must climb through, the briers she must escape, the maze of a dead corn field she must maneuver, and the scarecrow she must pass, at first thinking it to be a...]]></description>
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