A worn path
... the clinic where she gets the medicine for her grandson. Phoenix had to struggle through this path and that was how many black Americans struggled through life. Throughout the story Phoenix Jackson faces many obstacles in the worn path. Her dress gets caught on the bushes and as she untangles it and it tangles back again as her fingers are in motion insisting on getting loose from the bushes. She also had to move away the wild animals that came across her, she crossed over a log and went through a barbed-wire fence. A white hunter was an obstacle to Phoenix too she was lying down meditating as she lift her hand and this white hunter lifted her up. The hunter was making fun of her and called her granny. They talked and the hunter again made fun of her and referred to her as you colored people wouldn’t miss on seeing Santa Claus. The hunter had pointed the gun to Phoenix and he ask her if that would scare her and with firmness she answered that this didn’t scare her. After that she stopped on a sidewalk, her shoe laces were untied. She stopped a lady that was carrying presents and the lady rudely ask Phoenix “what do you want?”, all she wanted was for her laces to be tied so the lady did tie them up. As she arrived at the clinic a man who was at front desk was rude to her and called her granny. The symbols in this story were a bird compared to Phoenix as she was dressed in bright colors. The path that she walked was a symbol of how life goes through, and her dress gett...