Comparing The Scarlet Ibis And The Sniper

The Scarlet Ibis is about a boy teaching his weak little brother to be stronger, but he forgets after all of their training he is still fragile and pale. The Sniper is about a man, who starved himself of light and witnessed countless deaths, that he intestinally forgets that the enemy across from him is still a human. These two stories have their differences but similarities too. Comparing their stories they have in common that they hated they brother in the beginning but loved him in the end, how they are influenced by the setting, and how in the end they killed by accident; they feel remorse and guilt.
At the end of both the stories, the sniper and the boy kill their brothers by accident. The boy in The Scarlet Ibis wants his brother to become normal by the time school starts. Pushing him every day, from the day he was born the older brother knew that if you put his brother on his stomach he “push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed”. This is important because he did not mean to leave his brother behind in the rain, a deafening boom of thunder made him run faster and forget his brother is just learning to run. However, the sniper does not know the second sniper is his brother; he only refers to the second sniper as “the enemy”. …show more content…
The Scarlet Ibis setting is homey and has a family in it. It influences the boy to love his little brother, so much that he starts training him to fit in a school. The boy has a family that teaches him and he uses this to teach his brother to walk, swim, box, and climb trees. On the other hand, the Sniper environment is harsh and brutal. The Sniper is in a war, he needed to desensitize himself from the constant death and bloodshed or he will not fight any more; he will start seeing the other side as humans. Because of this, he kills his brother with the intension of killing the