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“A Worn Path” Timeline and Motif Tracker Grade 9: The Odyssey, Study notes of Medicine

University of Central Missouri (UCM)Medicine

Create a timeline of what you consider to be the most significant events the story. For each event, note the characters involved, the cause of the event, the.

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“AWornPath”TimelineandMotifTracker
Createatimelineofwhatyouconsidertobethemostsignificanteventsthestory.Foreachevent,notethecharactersinvolved,thecauseoftheevent,the
resultthatledtothenextevent,andwhethertheeventhadapositiveornegativeoutcome.Additionally,chooseamotiforpatternoflanguageforeach
event.
Event1Description
Phoenix maneuvers through the
maze of corn and believes that
she sees a ghost.
Event2Description
Phoenix, confronted by a dog,
lands in the ditch. A hunter
must come to help her.
Event3Description
Phoenix arrives in the city, which
is lit up for Christmas time. She
must make her way into the
medical building.
Event4Description
Phoenix obtains the medicine
from the city and then sets off
to get her grandson a present
and to return home.
Cause/Outcome
Because of her bad eyesight, she
cannot see that the “ghost” is a
scarecrow; however, she is
undeterred in her journey.
Cause/Outcome
Phoenix attempts to hit the
dog with her cane, but she
loses her balance. She patiently
waits for someone to come
help her, and she outsmarts
him.
Cause/Outcome
Phoenix, in her last set of trials, is
still undaunted by the bustle and
busyness of the city.
Cause/Outcome
Phoenix completes her journey.
Motif
COLD
“She found a coat and inside
that, an emptiness, cold as ice.”
(25).
Motif
HOME
The hunter asks if she is “on
[her] way home,” and she
answers, “I going to town.”
Motif
BLINDNESS
“There were red and green electric
lights strung and crisscrossed
everywhere, and all turned on in
the daytime. [She] would have
been lost if she had not
distrusted her eyesight and
Motif
SLOWNESS
“Then her slow step began on
the stairs, going down” (99).
Grade9:TheOdyssey
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“A Worn Path” Timeline and Motif Tracker

Create a timeline of what you consider to be the most significant events the story. For each event, note the characters involved, the cause of the event, the

result that led to the next event, and whether the event had a positive or negative outcome. Additionally, choose a motif or pattern of language for each

event.

Event 1 Description

Phoenix maneuvers through the maze of corn and believes that she sees a ghost.

Event 2 Description

Phoenix, confronted by a dog, lands in the ditch. A hunter must come to help her.

Event 3 Description

Phoenix arrives in the city, which is lit up for Christmas time. She must make her way into the medical building.

Event 4 Description

Phoenix obtains the medicine from the city and then sets off to get her grandson a present and to return home.

Cause/Outcome

Because of her bad eyesight, she cannot see that the “ghost” is a scarecrow; however, she is undeterred in her journey.

Cause/Outcome

Phoenix attempts to hit the dog with her cane, but she loses her balance. She patiently waits for someone to come help her, and she outsmarts him.

Cause/Outcome

Phoenix, in her last set of trials, is still undaunted by the bustle and busyness of the city.

Cause/Outcome

Phoenix completes her journey.

Motif COLD

“She found a coat and inside that, an emptiness, cold as ice.” (25).

Motif HOME

The hunter asks if she is “on [her] way home,” and she answers, “I going to town.”

Motif BLINDNESS

“There were red and green electric lights strung and crisscrossed everywhere, and all turned on in the daytime. [She] would have been lost if she had not distrusted her eyesight and

Motif SLOWNESS

“Then her slow step began on the stairs, going down” (99).

depended on her feet to know where to take her” (59).

Interpretive Commentary

The motif of cold suggests death, struggle, and trial. Phoenix, brave and resilient, is confronts all obstacles.

Interpretive Commentary

It would seem that Phoenix would give up and retreat to the safety of her home. She seems to draw strength, however, from the journey rather than the idea of home.

Interpretive Commentary

In mythology, blindness signifies wisdom or inner knowledge. The lights, symbolic of the city’s progress and modernity, provide more confusion for the almost blind protagonist. Her blindness is a symbol of her strength and wisdom.

Interpretive Commentary

Often the idea of slowness has a negative connotation, but in this story, Phoenix’s lack of speed signifies her steadiness and regularity.

Questions to Consider in Choosing Motifs

● What words, phrases, images, ideas, objects, events repeat or are emphasized throughout the story? ● What could these symbolize? ● Can you categorize any of the symbols into recurring motifs?

Questions to Consider in Writing Commentary

● What is this story about on a literal level? How is Phoenix's trip into the city representative of journeys in the wider human experience? ● Consider Phoenix’s name. What is the significance of her name to a theme of the story? ● What motivates Phoenix’s journey into the paved city? How does this motivation give her journey meaning? ● How do Phoenix’s reactions to the trials on her journey reveal a central idea or theme of the story? ● Consider the title of the story. What does the description of the path as “worn” convey about Phoenix’s journey, both literally and allegorically?