A Worn Path, The Bean Trees, Little Women, How It Feels To Be Colored M

Courageous and Heroic Women in A Worn Path, The Bean Trees, Little Women, How It Feels To Be Colored Me, and the The Piano  Ã‚   Women have been heroic and courageous throughout history, though not all of these heroic (or courageous) adventures have been shown in any way.   Some of women’s heroic and courageous adventures are portrayed through short stories, books, and movies.   Eudora Welty’s short story â€Å"A Worn Path,† Barbara Kingsolver’s book The Bean Trees, Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women, Zora Neale Hurston’s story â€Å"How It Feels To Be Colored Me,† and the movie â€Å"The Piano† all show women going through their own amazing and heroic adventures.   In these stories, the authors and director share with the reader (and watcher) the heroics of a woman.   Though these heroic adventures are full of risk and danger they are very valuable adventures for the characters’ health and development. In â€Å"A Worn Path† the character Phoenix Jackson walks through the forest on her way to town to get her grandson some medicine.   Now, Phoenix is an elderly lady, so this trip takes her awhile.   She has to go up and down hills, through thorny thickets, and over streams on logs.   Throughout the story she talks to herself and encourages herself to go on.   She talks to the brushes and the animals that she hears and tells them to keep â€Å"out of my way all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals!   Keep from under these feet†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Gilbert and Gubar 1641). This trip shows how heroic Phoenix is, for it’s pretty risky for her to take.   It might not be as risky for a younger person, but it’s hard for an older woman to go through barbed-wire fences, over logs, and through ditches.   She could get caught or hurt on any of the obstacl... ...es where he gets to do more with her than she wants, like touching her, taking off some of her clothes, and eventually sleeping with her.     Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   All of these women show their courage in some way or another, whether that courage is of the heart, mind, or body.   Women have had heroic and courageous qualities throughout history, but these women are some very good examples of how some women have the nerve and bravery to do and think what they feel is right no matter what men or other women think of them.   Works Cited: Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. New York: Signet, 1983. Hurston, Zora Neale. "How it Feels to be Colored Me." World Tomorrow, 11 (May, 1928) Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. New York : Harper, 1988. Welty, Eudora. "A Worn Path." Perrine's Story & Structure. 9th ed. Ed. Thomas Arp. Tokyo: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1997.