Brother's Greed In The Scarlet Ibis

Throughout the story The Scarlet Ibis, Brother slowly kills Doodle; slowly “cutting” him, until the wound was too deep. In the story, mostly for his own greed, Brother exploits Doodle and exhausts him through physical activity that Doodle should not have done. For example, he made him walk, run, swim, and more. Although this may have brought the emotionally torn family joy, it did not end well. Pride is a dark thing covered with light. At least this is what we see in the story. Throught, Brother strives to make Doodle a normal person. At the beginning, Brother and the family were sure that Doodle would be a good-for-nothing burden. When he was 6, he could not yet walk! This was a major antecedent to Doodles death. At this age, the majority of people could walk, and Brother was set on making

In this part of the story, we could see pride’s light instead of it’s massive darkness. Later in the story, Brother, who had now accepted his greed and pride as a good thing, made his brother swim, climb, run, paddle; anything that could make Brother shine as a brother. One afternoon, in the midst of fall, Doodle and Brother went out to Old Women’s Swamp, where Doodle had progressed into becoming “normal”. Even after Brothers pressure for Doodle to swim, Doodle did the right thing and said no. Failure to had done so could have brought him an earlier death. Despite Doodle’s objections to swimming, the brothers still went out paddling, that is until the storm came. At the time of the storm, the brothers paddled as fast as they could. When they were in land, they just decided to run. During this time, the light was slowly being eaten away by the more powerful darkness. As they were running, Doodle became exhausted, as was to be expected. The following words Doodle said not only change the reader's mood to serious and emotional, but it set all eyes on Brother to see how he would respond: “Brother, Brother, don’t leave