And Sarah Laughed / A Worn Path
...ople to Abel’s deafness. Sarah thought that would make her son look bad. “I don’t like people waving their hands around like monkeys in the zoo!” That quote proves what Sarah thought about people using sign language. In “A Worn Path”, Phoenix traveled alone to get medicine for her grandson who had swallowed lye. Again, there is a woman wanting to help her relative. In this story, the grandmother was really helping her grandson. She showed her love for him by traveling the long difficult trip by herself, on foot, to get his medicine. This was a real show of love. In the story, “And Sarah Laughed”, it appeared that there was lot of love and support in the family. The story talked about Matthew, Abel’s dad attempting to sign with Abel. Abel’s new bride, Janice, had showed love and support to Abel by helping him learn to communicate with sign language. Janice wanted to teach the other family members how to communicate with sign language. Finally at the end, Sarah showed her love when she decided to learn sign language so. Love and support from family was not seen in the story “A Worn Path”. The reason love and support was not shown is uncertain. The story only told about the family members Phoenix and her grandson. I can not believe there were other...