Pride In The Scarlet Ibis Literary Analysis

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

In conclusion, the narrator feels terrible of what he has done to Doodle; which possibly lead to Doodle’s death. Near the end, the narrator gets really disappointed with Doodle, because he did

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.

A father smiling down at his son; a teacher learning from his pupil; a soldier gazing up to his country’s flag. Or a woman masking her face with makeup; a man boasting endlessly of a talent; a child mocking another’s impediment. All textbook illustrations of pride. Nevertheless, the first trio is of outward pride—pride not of one’s own accomplishment, but the achievements of something or someone else. Moreover, the second trio consists of an inner pride—a vain, arrogant, conceited, egotistic, narcissistic feeling. Another crucial aspect of different prides is Jane Austen’s Pride vs. Vanity. She says, “A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Although “pride goeth before the fall”, pride, being outward or being competent to ourselves, is a healthy feeling unless provoked into vanity and narcissism.

Could pride take over a person's life? In "The Scarlet Ibis" written by James Hurst, the Narrator was the only son of the family, as far as he was at the age of six, the Narrator had a brother. He loved his little brother, but the Narrator's family has thought that Doodle would not survive the main issue of his life and not being able to do stuff. The Narrator and his family finally had seen that he could talk, and there was no sign of walking. The Narrator had to take his bother everywhere he had to go in his little go-cart. Which though the Narrator had been tired of carrying him around in the the go-cart, which, made him think that he can teach Doodle how to walk. Everyone was amused that Doodle could walk and now the Narrator for his pride of making him walk had consumed his mind and pressured Doodle to do more thinks before summer was over and start school. In the last week, before school started, in the bloody tree there was a Scarlet Ibis and fell down with no coordinated and died fragile, feathers everywhere. After that afternoon the Narrator's pride had vanished and ran home and left his brother who had fallen down.The moment that the Narrator had realized that he had pressured him and look for Doodle, he had died so similar to the Scarlet Ibis, delicate, blood all over ad with no coordination. For this reason, the Narrator is innocent and had not having nothing to do with his brother recognizing

One way the theme, it’s not good to let pride influence decisions and actions, is portrayed, is through flashbacks. Doodle got sick after the brother worked him so hard. “I should have already admitted defeat, but my pride wouldn’t let me.” The older brother thought. -Hurst 4. In this flashback, the brother knew that he was probably making a mistake at the time, but he chose to push Doodle anyway. He let his

This causes the Narrator to be embarrassed of his brother and want to fix the issue by pushing him to learn to walk. This shows that he is being selfish because he's fixing an issue that may seem like he's benefiting Doodle, although this is true, he is really doing it for himself. Most people do not do, or try to do selfish things to people they know or love. This shows that the Narrator does not care or love Doodle and think he's annoying. At the end of the Story when Doodle dies, we see that the Narrator is very sad and want Doodle back. So he went from being selfish, using Doodle, and treating him badly to loving him and being mournful.This is clear change in the Narrator, further proving that he is a dynamic

It also demosttates how precarious Brother is about Doodle’s limitations. After many days of failing to walk, Doodle finally able himself to walk by himself; “ they did not know that I [brother] did it for myself; that prude, whise 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 468). The narrator’s egoism is forcing Doodle and himself to push further than what Doodle can do. Prsseured by how others think of “him”, Brother tries his best change Doodle’s ability.

His family had no clue he did it for himself. Not even Doodle knew he was doing it for himself instead of doing it for Doodle. He was ashamed of his brother so he tried to make him walk. He wanted Doodle to be like the rest . The next quote also connects to the main theme by showing how addicting pride can be .

Many of the story’s readers will sympathize with Doodle because possibly at some point in their life, they have accomplished something others wouldn't think they could. This establishes trust between Doodle and the reader. He surprised his family by living much longer than 3 months like they said he was, but he also surprised his older brother with wholehearted love and adoration even through everything his brother put him through. Without much question, Doodle pushed his body to the limit to please his brother. Doodle was also on the verge of taking a stand against his brother.

A storm breaks out while they're in the middle of the woods, and the narrator tells Doodle too run home, and begins to run,but Doodle can barely walk, so how can he run? He tries but his older brother gets too far ahead of him, he screams for help but the narrator does not stop running. Then Doodle’s older brother knows somethings wrong when Doodle is not catching up with him, so he turns around to find Doodle, he comes across a bush and finds doodle curled inside of it. He called his name and got no response, so he lifts up Doodles head and sees blood all over his shirt and mouth. And he realized that Doodle is dead and begins to

The narrator took pride in teaching his brother how to walk. Later on, he began to teach Doodle other abilities. But the narrator had only taught his brother how to do other activities for his own benefit. During a storm the narrator and Doodle got trapped in, the narrator left Doodle behind. The narrator was too prideful to turn around and help his brother, and his brother ended up dying. The narrator was selfish in teaching his brother how to walk and more out of embarrassment, and since he got paraded for teaching his brother he continued to help his brother, only to have his brother die. Having too much pride can hurt your loved ones because you are not aware that you have become too selfish to care for others, like your own

In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” the author, James Hurst, uses the words, “a wonderful, terrible thing” to describe pride. The narrator learns that while pride motivates people to move past their limitations to do fascinating things, pride can also lead them to do horrible actions, or worse. Pride is a positive emotion that humans feel when they achieve a goal or accomplish a difficult task, or in other words, pride represents one’s dignity.

We all gain pride once we are born. Pride is a feeling or a deep pleasure or satisfaction in one's achievement. People can be prideful for achieving something they never could accomplish. Sometimes it can be good but it can also be bad. People can be good at something in the moment it's happening.

We should be ashamed of being pride but never proud of a shame. Pride can really ruin your life if you let take control of everything you do. My thoughts on pride are it can be a bad thing for people. Some people let pride get in the way of everything like family, friends, and relationships. People ask why we like to be right and not be wrong.