Colegio Universitario Programa Académico

de Limón Regional interdisciplinario

CUNLIMON Región Huetar Norte y Caribe

A Worn Path Analysis

Plot:

There was a poor elderly black woman who lived in the wood, her name was Phoenix
Jackson, and she had to go to the town because her grandson was sick.

As she walked, she found different obstacles as hungry, the confusing of the scarecrow for
a dancing ghost, after that found a hunter who unadvertised that a coin drop from his
pocket, she distracts him and picked up it.

After that she arrived to the town and entered to the big building where was a nurse who
ask for her grandson but she forget why she did this long trip.

She remembered that her grandson was sick but she did not have money to buy the
medicine.

The nurse give her the medicine for her grandson as a charity because was Christmas and
with the coin she decided buy a little windmill as a present to him.

Main Character:

Phoenix Jackson: She is a poor black woman and had a mythological name, loved her
grandson

Opinion:

This story is interesting because show the love for the family, in this case Phoenix´s
grandson because from the wood where they lived, she went on foot to the town in order
to get some medicine for him in Christmas. It is a little sad too because the obstacles that
she found in her trip but she was successful in her work. The themes that the story shows
are present in our days.
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de Limón Regional interdisciplinario
CUNLIMON Región Huetar Norte y Caribe

Theme:

Perseverance
Stamina
Love for family
Life in the face of hardship and dead
Charity
Racism
Hope
Poorly

Symbols:

 "Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far." It symbolizes the
recent memory of slavery.
 The women in the story, represents the myth of the bird because she is described
as being elderly and near the end of her life
 The trip to the city to get the medicine represents the mythological trip that the
Phoenix takes to the sun to die

Point of view:

Third person: The reader knows the story as an eye witness

Examples:

 “She kicked her foot over the furrow, and with mouth drawn down, shook her
head once or twice in a little strutting way.”
 “”Walk pretty”. She said.”
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de Limón Regional interdisciplinario
CUNLIMON Región Huetar Norte y Caribe

Setting:

The story took place on Christmas, in a wood and a town from the south of United States,
in the 30´s when the racism was very strong.

Cultural Aspects:

The racism is a market cultural aspect that we can find in this story when the hunter
offended the woman because her skin color.

Christmas is a particular appropriate time in which to sell the story?

I think that it is a good time because the people usually look for stories that are develop in
that period, shows the familiar love and the people had money for do charity as in the
story.

Tittle Means:

The worn path can be related to her life because she had to make this journey so many
times it becomes worn down and as the path becomes worn down, she becomes worn
down physically, mentally, and socially.