A Worn Path

Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" is a story that emphasizes the natural symbolism of the surroundings. The main character in the story, Phoenix Jackson, is an old black woman who seeks out to find medicine for her sick nephew. This story contains a motif, which is the continuous walking of Phoenix Jackson throughout her journey. She lives in the pinewoods and faces the challenging experience of walking through the snowy, frozen earth to get to the hospital in the city of Natchez. Phoenix Jackson is a very caring person, and is in love with life. Although she is very old, it seems that she has many years ahead of her. Eudora Welty brings realism into the story describing the realities of being old.

A good man is hard to find

The story "A Good man is hard to find" is mainly focused on prejudice and intolerant Grandmother. Who believes that people of good character are bred by "good families", and she's self-righteous enough to believe she, of course, comes from a good family. This attitude gets her whole family killed as well as herself. She has spent her life concerned with only what she wanted, never thinking of what others needed. This all changes when the Misfit sticks the gun in her face. Its to bad that she was a little to late to be graceful.

A Hungry Artist

A Hungry Artist by Fanz Kafka, is such a weird and complex story that I had to read it again! I was inspired on how a short story about an artist making himself hungry be so simple but yet complex? The story start out on describing about fasting artist, who spends his time in a cage being a public display being a spectacle. Weird as it is he was a big hit but still was never satisfied with his performance. ( This reminds me of the rich and the famous, NEVER SATISFIED lol!) " Hunger Artist was misunderstood, and so was his vision of transcendence and artistic excellence was which rejected or ignored by the public.

What made me interested in the story was that he was able to be loyal to himself. He dare not to cheat and did it because it was something he believed in. He reminded me of godly-like character that surpassed human nature. It's ironic how things turned out for the hungry artist, finally when someone finally notices his ability to starve and give him some recognition it was just too late.