Worn Path

Title: Worn Path
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 428 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

Worn Path

The Worn Path “A Worn Path” The story opens with Phoenix Jackson walking along the path through the pinewoods. She is carrying a thin, small cane made of an umbrella. The story then begins describing her. She is wearing a red rag, a "dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 428 total…when the couragesness of your decision goes beyond rational thought. One of the most important of these skills is the ability to talk herself through periods of difficulty. She "talks loudly to herself" so as to give herself courage to continue toward her goal, to get the medicine that will alleviate her grandson's pain. Her own pain becomes insignificant when she remembers the importance of her mission, and this is what makes her truly heroic.

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