Pride In The Scarlet Ibis

What is the definition of pride? If someone were to search the definition they would find that pride is “a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.” People can experience pride from many things like success, or intelligence, and even simple petty things being the first to turn in their test in a class. In the story the character Brother has a different type of pride, instead of being prideful of his actions his pride is a character trait. Brother is prideful of himself and having his crippled brother Doodle damaged his pride which is a dangerous thing when pride is a trait instead of a feeling. People often forget about how important a family member, especially siblings, are because they haven’t matured enough to understand the complexity and importance of life and family. In James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis” brotherhood is a very big topic throughout it and the character “Brother” demonstrates how complicated and strange being prideful, being a sibling, and being a person, is. Through the story he is characterized as considerate and hurtful through his actions and inner thoughts.

Pride is a leading theme in most of the short stories in the unit. All show that your pride can endanger you or someone else.

“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is a realistic fiction about these two brothers, Doodle, and Doodle’s brother who was the narrator of the story, many symbols are used. A symbol is a materialistic object being put in place for an abstract or complex emotion, or idea. For example the emojis you use when texting are symbols you use to express how you are feeling. In this story, Doodle is being symbolized by the Scarlet Ibis, the Scarlet Ibis is a bird and a symbol for Doodle because of their many similarities. An example of the Scarlet Ibis symbolizing Doodle is when Hurst describes the physical health of Doodle and the Ibis. He describes Doodle as being very sick and weak at the beginning of the story by saying “He seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man's. Everybody thought he was going to die-everybody except Aunt Nicey….” (Hurst page 1). Later on in the story when the Scarlet Ibis is introduced, Doodle’s father describes the bird as: “It looks tired, or maybe sick”(Hurst page 5). By giving Doodle and the Scarlet Ibis such similar physical features, it insinuates that whatever happens to the Scarlet Ibis will more than likely happen to Doodle. Another example of the Scarlet Ibis being a symbol for Doodle is when the Scarlet Ibis dies.” At that moment the bird began to flutter, but the wings were uncoordinated, and amid much flapping and a spray of flying feathers, it tumbled down, bumping through the limbs of the bleeding tree and

At the beginning, Doodle had been very hesitant to go along with his brother’s plans. He tried to argue with his brother. “I can’t walk, Brother,” Doodle said. “Who says so?” He demanded. “Mama, the doctor, everybody,” uttered Doodle. “Oh, you can walk,” The narrator said.” Shortly after that, Doodle began to follow the narrator’s orders and self ambitions. Soon, the narrator had acquired too much ambition, putting Doodle at risk. This is evident with Doodle’s constant cry, “don’t hurt me, Brother.” Little did the narrator know he would be pushing his brother too far. Later in the story, the narrator let his ambition overcome him and decided to keep on pushing his brother. He did not want a brother who could not do what other normal schoolboys could do. He admits to himself, “the knowledge that Doodle’s and my plans had come to naught was bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awakened.” He believed what Doodle could not do would greatly affect him and his social

In The Scarlet Ibis, what evidence does the narrarator use to support his claim that Doodle was a burden in many ways?

Some people can get blinded by their pride and engulf them in a world that makes them unaware of other people and controls their actions and for this reason it lead to cold blooded murder. “The Scarlet Ibis,” by James Hurst is a story of a silent war between two brothers. The setting takes place at a farm during World War 1 a caul baby was brought into this world. The Narrator’s little brother was named Doodle, and he was born with a disability. The Narrator was embarrassed to have a brother that was not normal. The Narrator's pride drove him to make Doodle a normal, ordinary brother. Doodle was never expected to live, but he ended up living to the age of six, however, he still had heart

People go great lengths to help the people they love or is it just their pride? In the story "The Scarlet Ibis", by James Hurst, Brother had a pride that made him insane. Brother always wanted a brother to play and do boy stuff with. His brother, Doodle, was born disabled though so he was limited to certain activities. Brother didn't care though, he was ashamed of having a handicapped brother, so he took matter into his own hands. Brother's ego took over and he knew it, he pushed Doodle out of his comfort zone. Brother should have been more gentle, due to all the actions and stress, he wore-out Doodle and is completely guilty of his death.

Selfishness can be so overpowering,Brother is submitted to his own wrath when he cries saying that his family, “did not know that [he] did it(Taught Doodle how to walk) for [himself], that pride, whose slave [he]was, spoke to [Him] louder than all their voices, and that Doodle walked only because [He] was ashamed of having a crippled brother. (Hurst 347) Pride. Pride can have a productive or fatalistic effect on people, for Brother he let his pride get the best of him. He was ashamed of having a little brother that couldn't walk so he set out to teach him, and even though this was a kind thing to do it was for selfish reasons.

"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.

Brother from the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is motivated by his pride. Brothers pride is motivated to help Doodle walk. Brothers pride pushed Doodle to do good things such as walk but also bad because it pushed him to a breaking point where he couldn’t go further and eventually died. “I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” (Hurst 3) Brothers pride is what’s keeping him going. Brother teaches Doodle how to walk because of his pride. The bad side of pride is he didn’t do it out of the kindness of his heart. The whole story is wrapped around Brothers pride. “They did not know that I did it for myself, that pride, whose slave I was…” (Hurst 3) This quote explains

“Everyone must have something to be proud of, and Doodle had become mine.” Some may see that in this story, pride was a destructive force, but I see pride as the motivation for brothers actions to help Doodle walk. Doodle was born crippled and very weak. The narrator encouraged and helped Doodle walk, and sometimes he used tough-love when teaching him, be he benefited from it. I believe that brother was innocent because if you are proud of something that you worked so hard on, why would you kill it?

The story explains, “... Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” (347). This to me means that brother only taught Doodle how to walk and swim and other things only because he was embarrassed of having a brother with disabilities. Brother also says, “ It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who was not there at all was unbearable.” (345). This proves him guilty because he said having an invalid brother was unbearable. This is because of pride being a destructive

In the story there is many elements showing pride and how much has the unknown gone too far with that. The short story has a few characters and the names of the characters are Doodle, Aunt Nicey, and the last one which you don’t know the name of which is called the unknown character in the text. I believe that the narrator is guilty, because in the story there are many emotions shown in such a small and short story. As you read the “Scarlet Ibis” the element pride is everywhere in such a small story, but can also show that the narrator has shown too much pride in himself so he pushed himself and his younger brother named Doodle to try harder into what the unknown character was doing. So is the element of pride shown in the book? There is so

Pride, a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements (Google Dictionary). The Scarlet Ibis demonstrates the strength of pride throughout the story. It is written by James Hursts, about two brothers, one whom, “did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death(Hursts 172)”. In short, pride is a marvelous and horrible thing at the same time and can cause happiness or pain. To begin,The Scarlet Ibis is a story that revolves around oneself pride.

Courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. It could also mean being brave or standing up to do something that you did not want to do. I’ve been reading short stories such as The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst and etc. And out of all these stories I feel like the short story The Scarlet Ibis shows the most courage in my eyes. Not only does it show great courage, but it is a humble to me.