Modern Humanity
...l that the most powerful leader or the richest politician. This early on in the speech, the reader is already aware that the speech is aimed towards the less-prominent people of America, contrary to the styles of other early writers. Kennedy later says, “ To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge out best efforts to help them help themselves.” Here it is made obvious that Kennedy’s goals are centered on the much more common less-fortunate peoples of the world. This is reinforced when he says his goal is to “assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.” When Kennedy spoke the classic line “ ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country,” he concludes that the control of the country is in the hands of the unified population more that any other group. Poverty and other various hurdles of the less prominent population of the world is obviously more important to Kennedy that the meager issues of the more prominent, much less common, people of America, which it should be, and therefore less prominent people are much more important to write about than more prominent people. In “A Worn Path”, Eudora Welty describes the humanity in the life of a lower class old black woman in the 1930’s, Phoenix Jackson. Although many aspects of her life would give most people trouble, Phoenix still lives a happy life. The story describes her trek through the woods one cold winter morning, when she was heading to town from her shack. She traveled a great distance and went to great lengths just to get some medicine for her grandson back at her home. Although this would be a small task to most people, it makes up the majority of Phoenix’s diminishing life. At one point at the beginning of her trip, Phoenix says “Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons, and wild animals!…Keep out from under these feet, li...