Summary Of Scarlet Ibis By James Hurst

The Good with The Bad

In the story, Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst. This story has one theme. Pride is a double-edged sword; you bring the bad with the good. Pride is a double-sided sword: you bring more bad with the good. this theme is shown throwing the plot of the story and the charters. The brother after feeling ashamed of doodle not being normal does the brother teach Doodle how to walk. “At breakfast on our chosen day, when mama and daddy, and aunt nicely were in the dining room, I brought doodle throw the door in the go-cart just as usual v and had them turn their backs, making them cross their hearts and hope to die if they peaked. I helped doodle up, and when he was standing alone I let them look. There wasn't a sound as doodle walked

Daddy hugged him too, so I went to aunt nicely, who was thanks praying in the doorway.” this shows how the brother's archives something amazing and at one time said impossible. This represents the theme by showing the better side of the brother's pride. The brother becomes very ashamed of having doodle as a brother when. as shown in the text. I wanted a brother. But Mama, crying, told me that even if William Armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. He might not she sobbed, even be “all there.” He might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. page 464 lines 33-38. this shows how he doesn't want doodle to be his brother at all and is ashamed of him. This proves the theme because the text shown shows that the brother has a bad side of pride. this pride will bring more bad Than good to the brother as the story progresses. Which bring the bad. After a certain amount of time the brother stats to have homicidal thoughts. It was bad enough having an invalid brother but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by