Reflection 6: "A Worn Path" of Eudora Welty

The story “A worn path” of Eudora Welty is about an old Negro woman named Phoenix Jackson that went out in the early morning of December walking trough a long path. Phoenix walked that path since far out in the country until she arrived to the town. While she walked slowly trough the path trying to arrive to were she was heading she encountered various obstacles, first she tangle with a bush, then she had to jump a fence, third she thought she saw a ghost and it was just a scarecrow and fourth she bumped with a white man that didn’t wanted to let her continue with her destiny because he thought she was too old, but she continued anyway. When she bumped with the white man she saw that from his pockets a nickel had fallen and she stole that nickel from the man even though she knew that, that was not right. When she finally arrived to the town she entered trough a door and a women asked her, her personal information and Phoenix just stood there without saying anything. Finally a nurse that know her came out and asked Phoenix what she had came for and also how was her grandson, but Phoenix had forgotten all of that. The nurse with patience after a while gave Phoenix a medicine for her grandson because she knew he continued sick when Phoenix had finally remembered part of why she had waked so far to the town. The nurse, because it was Christmas offered to Phoenix some pennies and Phoenix said that if she gave her 5 pennies that would be a nickel so the nurse gave her a nickel and phoenix said that was going to buy for her grandson a windmill made of paper and said she was going to walk to her house until she arrived and her grandson sees what she had binged him.

This story touched me. For me it was impressive how this old woman had walked that far and that besides all of the obstacles she had encountered in the way she never quit. I liked also how important was for her, her grandson and bringing him such a simple present in Christmas with that appreciation and happiness. This story can teach us all to appreciate all we have and also all of the simple and little tings in life too. Also it teach us that no mater the obstacles in life we never should give up because at the end we would find a prize. Si what I liked the most about this story was what it can teach us and mostly what it teached me.