1. A Worn Path and Half a Day
Motifs and Allegories
A Worn Path and Half a Day

2. Words, phrases, and quotations that create patterns and/or contrasts in a text
What is a motif?

3. A Worn Path Motifs Birds – Phoenix, Mourning Dove, Buzzard
Age – “I’m not as old as I thought,” the man with the gun
A Worn Path Motifs

4. A story or poem in which every element has parallel literal and symbolic meanings
What is allegory?

5. How is A Worn Path an allegory?
The Journey
Begins a little difficult and gets more difficult
Levels out toward the end
The Hill
The middle of the story
The Man with the Gun
Points the gun at Phoenix
Town
Christmas lights everywhere
Phoenix asks a lady to tie her shoe
How is A Worn Path an allegory?

6. Read Half a Day (PDF on my website)
There will be a graded assignment related to this story in the near future
For Tomorrow