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    for the better or even the worse. It is important to know that taking actions to prevent regret in the future will one’s self in the long run. Brother and Doodle were going out to Horsehead Landing after dinner to go practice swimming to prepare for school. A storm was approaching and lightning was near them so they were running to get home. Doodle fell behind and he tried calling for brother's help but brother completely ignored him and kept on running. He left his crippled brother behind in a…

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    personal standards, and the consequences may be severe. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, the narrator presents this theory in a number of ways. In the beginning of the story, Doodle finally learns to crawl. His brother is genuinely pleased by this feat, and his reason being is typical. “For the first time he became one of us” (1). At this point, Doodle is only two years old. Despite this, the narrator still chooses to say this statement. Clearly, as soon as his brother was born, the narrator wanted him to…

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    his brother who was five and couldn’t walk, but he wouldn’t tell his brother it in person. “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him. We were down in Old Woman Swamp and it was spring and the sick sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful song. ‘I’m going to teach you to walk, Doodle,’ I said.” Doodle doubted he could walk because everybody said he wouldn’t be able to walk. “‘I can’t walk,…

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    Scarlet Ibis” the author uses the bird as a symbol for doodle to foreshadow what's going to happen at the end. When they first see the bird the dad says “”It looks tiered,” daddy added. “Or maybe evan sick”” When the narrator is teaching doodle to run he says “I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up,his face turned red”. This relates the two through being tired and worn out. The bird had flown from florida to North carolina and doodle was pushing himself harder than ever before to meet…

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    Misfortune awaits for a prideful, pompous person. This quote fits perfectly with the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. Pride is destructive impetus. Malevolent emotions are caused by pride. For example, Brother after he and Doodle failed to bring Doodle to the physical strength of a normal boy he “never spoke(What are the words that can solder cracked pride?)... The knowledge that Doodle’s and my plans had to come to naught was bitter, and that streak of cruelty awakened”(604). This…

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    reason that George takes care of Lennie, his friend who has mental disabilities. Conversely, In “Scarlet Ibis” ,by James Hurst, pride is not portrayed in a positive way when the narrator has a fulsome amount of pride is his brother, Doodle and the Narrator pushes Doodle too far, until eventually he reaches his breaking point. The two stories, Of Mice and Men and “Scarlet Ibis”, share many similarities as well as differences. The stories both…

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    “all there”, but he was. The doctor said that he could not get too cold, too hot, cannot exert himself, or his heart would give up. This didn’t stop the narrator from having one of the best brothers ever, Doodle. I believe that the symbol from the story “The Scarlet Ibis” that best represents Doodle is the Scarlet Ibis. The first reason is “It lives in the tropics- South America to Florida. A storm must have brought it here” (Hurst 137). In this sentence, they are talking about the Scarlet…

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    boys, the narrator, and Doodle - formerly named William Armstrong. But that’s not all that the Scarlet Ibis is about. The Scarlet Ibis is also about the Sin of Pride, and how Pride brings with it two seeds - life and death. This theme is one of the core aspects of the Scarlet Ibis. The narrator’s pride is what sets in motion this story in the first place. He was ashamed of Doodle for being physically disabled and unable to walk at the age of six - so he began pushing Doodle and training him in…

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    brought his downfall in "The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. Brother had a disabled brother named Doodle. When Doodle was 5, Brother tried to teach him how to walk, swim, and other perform other physical tasks to avoid the shame of having a disabled brother. During one of their lessons there was a storm and Brother ran, leaving his younger brother behind. When Brother looks for his brother later, Doodle was found dead. Hurst uses this incident in his short story to teach the lesson that acts…

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    that family is important, family should not be treated cruelly. The narrator of the story wanted to smother his brother because he was expected to not be all there. “So I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.”(Hurst 595) Doodle chose that exact…

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