Character Analysis
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Giovanna Hespanha
Rhonda Lippert
English Composition II
June 17, 2021
Essay Plan Sheet—Character Analysis
Author: Eudora Welty
Title of work: A Worn Path
One-sentence summary of story: The story is about an old black woman; Phoenix Jackson who is forced to walk a long distance from her rural home in Mississippi to Natchez to get medication for her ailing grandson.
Thesis: Although Phoenix Jackson does not fit the usual descriptions of a heroine she is a fierce woman that does not allow anything to get in her way towards achieving her goals.
Topic sentence (first sub point): Phoenix Jackson is old and frail; she has lived for many years and her body is weak but is not a coward.
Supporting quote: (#1310): “My senses is gone. I too old. I the oldest people I ever know. Dance, old scarecrow”
Supporting quote: (#1308): “She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock.”
Topic sentence (second subpoint): Phoenix Jackson had so much love for his grandson and that is what pushed her to continue walking and looking for a cure for him.
Supporting quote: (#1313): “I not going to forget him again, no, the whole enduring time. I could tell him from all the others in creation.”
Supporting quote: (#1312): “She doesn’t come for herself—she has a little grandson. She makes these trips just as regular as clockwork. She lives away back off the Old Natchez Trace
Conclusion:
Phoenix Jackson is indeed a hero because of the sacrifices that she has made to look for drugs for her grandson. Despite her old age, she is persistent which shows how far one can go to get help for the people that they love and through her, we see the themes that the author was trying to bring out.
