Comparing How I Live Now, And The Scarlet Ibis, By Richard Matheson

Effects of Shared Humanity A human is a creature that goes through experiences such as emotions, choices , relationships, losses, survival, and moral dilemmas. These are apart of a concept known as Shared Humanity. The things everybody has in common affect how a person would see the world around them. This gives people different perspectives on what is going on based on the emotions they feel or what they believe is right or wrong. The six categories of shared humanity are found and explained in different works of litural, some being I Am Legend , How I Live Now, and “The Scarlet Ibis”. The novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson explains how a human can experience emotion in a tough time in their life. At the end of the book the emotion of

In this story the narrator has a new baby brother, but he is very crippled and can't walk, so the narrator does not like him because he wanted a brother to play with. The narrator's dad built the baby brother, Doodle a wagon so the narrator can pull him around. One day the narrator decides to take Doodle to his secret place, the Old Women Swamp. When he takes Doodle he is immediately annoyed because Doodle was crying. He asked why he was crying and it was because Doodle thought the swamp was pretty. From that moment on they went to the swamp a lot together. “Doodle was my brother and he was going to cling to me forever, no matter what I did, so I dragged his across the cotton field to Old Women swamp. I lifted him out and set him down in the soft rubber grass beside a tall pine. His eyes were round with wonder as he gazed about him. Then he began to cry. ‘For heaven’s sake, what's the matter?’ I asked annoyed. ‘ It's so pretty,’ he said, ‘so pretty, pretty, pretty.’ After that day Doodle and I often went down into Old Women Swamp” (Hurst). The narrator and Doodle form a stronger relationship when they visit the swamp because the narrator loves this swamp, so when he saw Doodle crying because he loved it so much, he reliesed that they have something in common. Because of this he and Doodle went to the swamp a lot making them form a closer relationship with each other. Just like most people when two or more have stuff in common they are more likely to form a relationship with each other, then people who don't have anything in common. Shared humanity was shown in “The Scarlet Ibis” by relationship. Shared humanity is in many other novels, but this was just to name a