A Worn Path Comparison

There are stories written every day with different purposes, some are just a good story to read but other are impacting. A perfect examples would be “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker a “Novelist, poet and feminist Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia”( "Alice Walker Biography.") Then there “A Worth Path” written by Eudora Welty an Author, Photographer, Journalist born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. These two authors are Pulitzer Prize winners, and what is particularly about these two stories is they have strong matriarchs in them. Matriarchs are woman head of their family or community. These stories have different purposes but at the same time also the same involving love, strength, and

Jackson is a very elderly woman who takes care of her very sickly grandson. She lives very far from the doctor’s office, from where she gets her grandson medicine but she goes walking to the office every time it’s the time of the month that her grandson needs his medicine. She is putting her life on the line every time she does this not only physically but also mentally. Ms. Jackson and her grandson are all they have in their world. There is no one else her grandson can depend on, that is why Ms. Jackson did anything to get the medicine. On her trip, she faces getting lost, hunger, no rest and a difficult path that could also lead to other things other than the doctor’s office. Because Ms. Jackson was very old she suffered memory lost at times and that is why it was so important for her to not stop walking till she got to the office. The path was also not easy to get though she had to crawl under fences and walk through paths that plants would stick to her dress. But also, she came face to face with a white man that was hunting and told her to go back home. She refused even when with the man pointing the gun at her, nothing was going to stop her. When she did finally arrive at the office for a moment she forgot why she was there when the nurse questioned her. When she did remember she promised herself she would never forget about him again. The nurse gave her the medicine and she was on her way. The question did come up if her grandson was still alive after all he had been very sick for years now. As the author Ms. Welty said “It does not matter. I mean, it happened as it did. I mean, she would go through this experience for him when he was still living, to her knowledge or not. I mean, I don't mean she'd go thinking he was dead, but I mean it wouldn't occur to her that, that was a part of it that it might be in the cards that it was too late. But that could not possibly get through to her. She would have done it anyway” ( Eudora Welty.) It