Cloud Judgment In The Scarlet Ibis By James Hurst

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In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” the author James Hurst, uses the symbol of death and dying to show how pride can cloud judgment. The first example is when Brother expresses his embarrassment with his brother who isn’t all there and plans to kill him, Brother then says “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly wasn’t all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.”(Hurst 1) Brother was so ashamed of having a disabled and mentally handicapped brother that he planned to murder his own brother instead of accepting him. The second example is when Brother starts to run away from Doodle in the middle of a storm because he had failed to be able to do a list of physical