Answer and Explanation:
In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," the speaker finds himself facing a fork on the road where he is traveling. One road has now become two, and he is forced to choose one of them if he wishes to continue his journey.
<u>The two roads symbolize the choices we have to make in life. Just like the speaker of the poem, if we wish to move forward, we must make decisions throughout the way. Upon choosing one road, upon making a choice, we are, most of the time, giving up on the other for good. In the poem, the speaker chooses the road less traveled by. That means he wishes to be different, to do what others are not doing, to go where they did not choose to go.</u>
In "A Worn Path", Old Phoenix Jackson was able to hit the dog her cane before falling into a ditch. She waits until a young white hunter shows up and helps her out of the ditch. He is demeaning at first about her age, then shows prejudice because he says “I know you old colored people…wouldn’t miss going to town to see Santa Claus!”
She sees a nickel has fallen out of the hunter's pocket, and before taking it, she distracts him by saying that his big black dog isn't afraid of anything. Not only does he chase it off to prove her wrong, but also points a gun at her at an attempt to assert power.
The rich only want to get richer, and leave poor people in the dust, so they pay people off to keep them happy enough to shove the rest of us down.
Answer:
Once there was a little boy, With curly hair and pleasant eye— A boy who always told the truth, And never, never told a lie. And when he trotted off to school, The children all about would cry, “There goes the curly-headed boy— The boy that never tells a lie.”
