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Grammer questions
This is an essay im doin for my english class. I need to know my grammer errors. In an article that was published in 1962, about an African American family and their lifestyle. This was a normal family for this time period. The youngest two children out of the seven where explaining their everyday lifestyle. They lived in a poor and segregated area of southwestern Louisiana. The children had to walk down a dirt road past an all-white Elementary School to attend classes in a one-room, all-black church where pews doubled as school desks during the week. They were talked about, and looked upon for being poor, and the only African American kids in the school. Their parents always stressed that a good education was the way our of poverty. So with their positive attitudes and determination they both ended up getting a good education and changing their life styles for the better. Similarly, Eudora Welty represents a dedicated, determined grandmother Phoenix Jackson in “A Worn Path” as she proceeds a long not so adventures journey to town for help for a family member. As a very strong independent black women, Phoenix Jackson struggles with poverty, racism, and sexism in the early 1900's in order to make it in her society.

As a strong black women, Phoenix Jackson struggles through poverty. She had no money to buy clothes, therefore she wore old, worn-out clothing. Eudora Wetly, states “She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step she might have fallen over her shoes laces, which dragged from her unlaced shoe”(865). Also, another example that Wetly stated was “She carried a thin, small cane made from umbrella, and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her”(865). During this time period money was hard to come by. In the story, the hunter drops a nickel on the ground, this excites phoenix, she doesn‘t know what to think. Eudora Wetly explains this by  stating  “Her fingers slid down and along the ground under the piece of money with the grace and care they would have in lifting an egg from under a setting hen”(868). She is very happy to have got to keep the nickel, however she was not selfish with it, she spent it buying her ill grandson a pinwheel for Christmas.

As a strong independent black women, Phoenix struggles with racism in many ways. As a elderly colored women, and slavery being such a big  issue back in her time, there was a lot of determination. She did not let anything get her down. Eudora Wetly, stated  in the story  “Doesn’t the gun scare you?” he said, still pointing it. “ No, sir, I seen plenty go closer by, in my day, and for less that what I done” (868). She also wore a red rag around her head that is a symbol of slavery. At this time African Americans, did not have the privileges of learning how to read or write, an example of this would be when Wetly stated  “Please, missy will you lace up my shoe” (869). . Phoenix is very permissive. She knew that things would eventually get better. She always kept a positive attitude.

As a strong independent black women, Phoenix struggles with sexism.