“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, demonstrates how succeeding pride can eventually lead to selfishness, and narrow-minded thinking, especially with bad intentions. Since the parents were so convinced that Doodle wasn’t going to live, they didn’t have much of a connection with him. So, brother felt that Doodle was his responsibility now, and he had to take care of him instead of the parents. Doodle is unable to walk, until his brother was embarrassed that his five year old brother couldn’t walk. Before long, brother decided to teach Doodle to walk. However, his intentions were because he was embarrassed, not because he wanted to help Doodle. The brother keeps to himself, “They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride’ whose slave
