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Themes In The Scarlet Ibis

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Theme: Challenges Make People Stronger. Challenges. People go through challenges everyday, they can either be easy or hard. Challenges can be the smallest bump in a person’s day or it can be something major. People learn and achieve something when they go through challenges in life and it ends up making them stronger. The Scarlet Ibis is a story with this exact theme, many of the characters go through challenges that end up making them stronger. Doodle, for instance, is a little boy who was born with physical disabilities, he had a heart problem, he couldn’t walk or crawl, and he wasn’t supposed to live after birth but ended up living. Doodle’s older brother, the Narrator, helps teach Doodle to crawl, walk, run, row a boat, and swim. To …show more content…

One of the characters is Rainsford, he is a hunter who travels the world on his yacht just to hunt exotic animals. One day he falls off his yacht and ends up on an island. He travels into the forest and finds a glamorous house. He knocks on the door and ends up meeting a man named General Zaroff. Zaroff is amiable at first but then decides he wants to hunt Rainsford. When Rainsford hears Zaroff say this, he realizes that Zaroff is a man hunter. So, Zaroff gave Rainsford a head start into the forest and then he would go hunt him. Rainsford had many challenges ahead of him, the top challenge he wanted to achieve was to stay alive, the next one was to survive in the forest. Day after day Zaroff was getting closer and closer to Rainsford, but Rainsford had a plan, he would build a trap to capture/kill Zaroff. Whenever one of the traps failed, his new challenge was to make a trap and hope that Zaroff would take the bait. At the end of the story, Rainsford trapped Zaroff and ended up killing him. These challenges that were thrown at Rainsford made him stronger because he learned a lot of new things and he achieved many

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