How Did Jack London Change His Pride In The Call Of The Wild

In these three stories there were people who did risks for the sake of success and reaching their goals for themselves and others. For example, when Buck was very hungry he was willing enough to do risks so he can eat the rabbit that he found. When Farah Amadi known the risks of climbing up a mountain with her prosthetic leg she did not give up. Annie Johnson knew the risks of starting a business but that did not stop her from starting one. However, all these people shared an ability to try to overcome the risks they faced in their journey to accomplish their goals.

"I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death. " Pride holds the ability to harm others if you do not set limits to what you will do to achieve it. The Scarlet Ibis, a tale written by James Hurst and that takes place in the early 1900s covers this when Brother speaks of his grievous past--precisely, by overworking his delicate younger brother Doodle. Doodle was born with a health condition, causing him to be initially disabled and later on in life, limited. Specifically, he suffered from a heart condition and was physically weak and unable to walk, the doctor had warned that Doodle must be treated gently and avoid extremes in temperature and emotion.

Pride, can be either good or bad or maybe both in some situations. Their are many ways to use pride in many situations faced everyday. In the book “The Scarlet Ibis” the narrator uses pride in ways that can be confusing at times and some examples are self explanatory. The story begins with a narrator who has not been assigned a name but we know that he was age 6 when William Armstrong was born. He was born with disabilities and the family even constructed a coffin for him.

Buck, a dog that went from a fast wagging tail to a savage, prodromal, wild beast. He was a dog that ran freely on his land, ruling everyone and everything. Then he was taken. He was brought to the Yukon Valley and kept there. For a while, he fought the primal instincts bubbling up inside of him, trying to hold onto his last memories of home. Then he just let go and grasped the strong pull of the wild. The poem relates to Buck’s journey most when it shows how the wild is pulling and chafing at Buck’s domestication. “Chafing at custom's chain” (London 1) in this book is explaining the part where Buck is fighting to keep the domestic urge inside him alive. This poem also shows relation to Buck travels before his change. It infers that when he is living with the Judge’s his real self, his primal self, is sleeping. This poem reflects on Buck's journey to the Yukon showing when his sleeping primal self, it also shows fighting his instincts, and his transformation into the wilderness.

Pride, for example, is favorable, because it can encourage the person to strive harder, ultimately allowing them to achieve their goals. Such as when “it seemed so hopeless from the beginning that it's a miracle [Doodle’s brother] didn't give up” (Hurst 3). The audience can see that the narrator encourages himself, as well as his brother, with his own pride to teach Doodle how to walk. Similarly, pride can also make a person determined to achieve their objective, as in when the person “should have already admitted defeat, but my[their] pride wouldn't let me[them]”(Hurst

Pride is like an iridescent object. From one angle, it can seem like a great feeling. But when viewed from a different perspective, it can be seen as a source of destruction to a relationship. In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”, the author, James Hurst, shows us the negative impacts of pride through the character of Brother. Within the short story, Brother goes through many conflicts and ends up realizing what pride is and how powerful or dangerous it can be if used in a relationship. “The Scarlet Ibis” expresses the idea that whatever relationship you’re lucky to have, you should fill it with love and understanding, and not pride, selfishness and expectations.

Pride carries two branches, life and death. In the short story, "The Scarlet Ibis", by James Hurst, the reader gets a front row seat as Brother, the narrator, learns the dangers of pride the hard way. Doodle quickly became Brother's source of pride from the minute Brother realized Doodle had a shot at being normal. Faced with the fear of being tantalized for having an invalid brother, Brother doggedly pushed Doodle far from his capacity going as far as to abandoning him. In the same way the scarlet ibis was pushed by the need to survive to continue to fight for its goal.

Pride can be describe as a very common thing that one individual has encountered once in their lifetime. Pride can be both positive and negative in one’s perspective. In the stories,“The Odyssey” by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald, “The Necklace,” by Guy De Maupassant, and “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist and several characters exhibit pride. Pride can convey negative effects in one’s life if one individual exaggerates or abuses pride.

Pride is an attractive trait to possess. Acknowledging the other point of view of ways pride could be an unattractive quality to possess. Too much pride can damage others and even yourself. In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” the narrator stated, “Let’s go Doodle, he didn’t answer… he fell backward onto the earth, he was bleeding from his mouth to his neck (pg 176).” Doodle was scared and frightened of what his brother would do.

Pride, as defined in the dictionary as, “the happy satisfied feeling somebody experiences when having or achieving something special”. Our pride can be sabotaged by our own selfish emotions, and this occurred in the book The Scarlet Ibis. Big Brother’s pride drug him down but also motivated him. Pride is part of the main theme of The Scarlet Ibis, and the entire theme is, “Pride is a wonderful terrible thing, a seed that bears to vines, life and death.” Finally, The Scarlet Ibis tells us about ourselves and our own pride. Pride can be written well in stories, but it also does happen to us in real life.

Pride can kill you in just a couple seconds. Pride is both something everybody has and wants more of, but if an individual is allowed access to too much pride, they can become hurtful to not only their lives, but also others as well. Too much pride can be considered a very deadly and destructive force. With too much pride, people in modern society, will began to think of you as egotistical or rude, while when someone has less pride than a normal person, they are called self conscious and depressed. You then start to think of yourself as those descriptions. These effects of pride on adults are exaggerated in children due to their constant change in emotions and self concept. This is why, when it comes to Brother in The Scarlet Ibis, he should be viewed as innocent. In this story young Brother has a newborn sibling with some form of deformity. At first, brother is told that Doodle, his sibling, won’t be able to play, or do any activities, because he is not “all there”. He later plots to kill his brother because he doesn’t feel that there is any purpose in living a life that isn’t worth living. When he is about to smother his brother with a pillow, Doodle recognizes his brother and smiles. Brother then realizes his infant brother is “all there”. They spend the next years of their lives together and become best friends. Brother teaches Doodle to walk, swim, run, and climb trees so he can go to school with all the other little kids, and fit in. One day, it starts to rain and they

Any great accomplishment can make someone feel proud about their work. It makes one feel good; it raises a person's spirits. "No question, pride has its good points." (The Toronto Star, Nov 1999) Then again, there are also the bad points of pride one must consider, before being proud. Pride can deceive a person into being ambitious, and make them strive for something that is not rightfully theirs. Both Macbeth and Willy encountered this problem. Pride can also cause a bad relationship with the people one loves most. For Macbeth and Willy, their relationships with their families were burdened as a consequence of this pride. Pride can lead to much worse things; it can put a person in a

Pride generally means the pleasure or a feeling of deep satisfaction that we get because of our achievements or our skills or some kind of rare quality that we possess. Often times, having pride is considered unhealthy for an individual as it is believed that having pride can lead to internal blindness and finally downfall. This is evitable from “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, by William Shakespeare. Although, we can’t neglect a fact that everything has two sides, a bad one and a good one, just like a two sided coin.

One example of this theme is in the short story "The Scarlet Ibis." In the story, the leading character was ashamed of having a disabled little brother, believing that other kids would make fun of them. He decides to teach his brother how to walk. After a rough couple of weeks, Doodle, the little brother, learns how to walk. The older brother decides to also teach Doodle how to run, swim, and climb so when he goes to school, he'll be "normal." This is an example of the main character's pride. He doesn't want the other kids to think he is different because he has a disabled brother, so he decides to teach his brother to be normal. While teaching Doodle how to run, swim and climb, the older brother pushes him to his limit. A storm arrives and the older brother leaves Doodle, causing Doodle to panic and pass away. This is another example of pride. The older brother was so prideful of Doodle and wanted him to be the best he could be, but it resulted in Doodle dying.

Pride, which becomes a major life lesson that is being taught throughout this book, concludes that pride it self is a life changing characteristic that one may chose to attain. In attaining pride one may seem arrogant or stubborn or one may chose to toss the pride aspect of life aside, yet seem somewhat less respectable. This book entails that pride should be taken into serious consideration since it has a major impact in everyday