Is Pride Good Or Bad What do you think of when you hear pride? I think of someone who has a foolishly and irrationally corrupt sense of values and goals. It is a way of thinking that Involves so much selfishness that it blinds one into thinking that they are able to manipulate others how they want. Which becomes so important that they will not quit until they achieve their own goal. In the Scarlet Ibis Doodles brother is so insecure and ashamed in Doodle that he pushes him to be better, not for Doodle but for himself. ¨Dont hurt my brother,¨ he warned: ¨Shut up. I´m going to teach you to walk. Every day that summer we …show more content…
We should not be prideful thinkers because it will not benefit anybody in any way, shape, or form. Pride is an endless cycle of the way people think of each other and themselves. People who are prideful will always try to make themselves look better than everyone around them, but on the inside there is fear and doubt of what they think others will think about them. When those that get made fun of will have to make a choice, they will stand up to it or will feel bad about themselves. And the people who take it in will start to use pride to make them look better about themselves. In the story the Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst it states that the narrator is embarrassed by having a brother who isn't capable of doing many things.” They did not know that i did it for myself, that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices: and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” (Hurst 3) This shows how prideful thinking can manipulate others and yourself. This means when you feel a certain way for others (embarrassed or ashamed) you shouldn't try to take