There are multiple themes evident in "A Worn Path". Read the following excerpt and determine the theme evident in the text: Phoenix spoke unasked now. 'No, missy, he not dead, he just the same. Every little while his throat begin to close up again, and he not able to swallow. He not get his breath. He not able to help himself. So the time come around, and I go on another trip for the soothing-medicine.' 'All right. The doctor said as long as you came to get it, you could have it,' said the nurse. 'But it's an obstinate case.' 'My little grandson, he sit up there in the house all wrapped up, waiting by himself,' Phoenix went on. 'We is the only two left in the world. He suffer and it don't seem to put him back at all. He got a sweet look. He going to last. He wear a little patch- quilt and peep out, holding his mouth open like a little bird. I remembers so plain now. I not going to forget him again, no, the whole enduring time. I could tell him from all the others in creation.' Freedom Racism Hardship Duty and responsibility