...The Sharing of a Common Theme “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst and “The Interlopers” by Saki both share a common theme ‘appearance versus reality’. Though both of the articles have two completely different plots, they share an idea that is displayed throughout both stories. The theme may seem to have different levels of importance or appear in different parts of the stories, but it is present in both no matter what. Here is an example of how “The Scarlet Ibis” and “The Interlopers” both have the theme ‘appearance vs. reality’. The theme of appearance versus reality is displayed in the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by illustrating Big Brother’s disappointment at having a disabled brother transformed to embarrassment and selfish desire of...
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...In the story “ The Scarlet Ibis” there are two brothers, the youngest one is named Doodle he was born with a birth defect that made him not being able to walk. His brother wanted him to walk for his brothers own purpose. His brother kept pushing Doodle to learn how to stand and walk on his own. ¨I can't walk Brother,” he said. ¨Who says so?” I demanded. ¨Mama, the doctor-everybody” ¨Oh you can walk,¨ I said, and I took him by the arms and stood him up. He collaspesd onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack. It was as if he had no bones in his little legs” (Hurst 3). Brother pushing Doodle how to walk made Doodle stronger but made many conflicts. Brother was hurting Doodle sometimes. He kept pushing Doodle to do his best until he learned how to walk. People told Doodle he would not be able to walk ever in his life. Doodle being able to walk put him in a lot more trouble than he could have been when he was not able to walk. Brother pushing Doodle how to walk caused conflict, and was putting Doodle in...
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...“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst places a large focus on humanity and the humane treatment of others. In this short story, the narrator mistreats his younger brother in order to make him more like normal boys who can play, run, and swim. However, this backfires as his younger brother Doodle dies from overexertion because the narrator pushes him past his limits. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, the absence of humanity is a large component and is portrayed in the way Doodle is treated by the narrator. In this story, the narrator’s great pride and lack of humanity is what causes Doodle’s death. Because he is so focused on making Doodle like the other children, the narrator forgets that Doodle has feelings and shortcomings. The narrator is “embarrassed...
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...“Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” (Hurst 318), how can one word have life and death in it? In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, the narrator teaches his disabled brother, Doodle, how to walk. When successfully teaching Doodle how to walk, the narrator pushes Doodle to learn swimming, running, and other physical activities. The narrator takes Doodle into a web of high expectations which both of them don’t come out of till the saddening death of Doodle. Throughout the story the narrator shows the good side of pride, confidence, and the bad side of pride, ego. The helpful side of pride, confidence, which gives people motivation to achieve goals and stand up tall, is shown in the story...
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...Pride´s Repercussions In ¨The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst characterizes the narrator as overly egotistical to exhibit the theme that one's pride can cause harm to others. Towards the middle of the story, when the narrator's brother Doodle, who has a heart disability which causes him to have to strain to move, turns five years old the narrator, ¨feels embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn't walk so he, ¨set out to teach him.¨ (7) The word “embarrassed” implies the narrator´s large amount of pride, as rather than teaching Doodle for his benefit, the narrator only does so because Doodle´s disability puts a damper on the narrator's pride. Under normal circumstances, the narrator teaching his brother to walk should seem like a...
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...The Scarlet Ibis by: James Hurst In “The Scarlet Ibis”, the older brother is coaching his younger brother, who has physical disabilities, on how to fit in, mostly for his own sake. The story brings up all sorts of questions such as, why is it that we sometimes fear people who are different? Why do many people think it's so important to fit in? If someone doesn't mind being different, why do we often still pressure them to conform? This story shows that pushing others too hard to fit in can end in tragedy. Most people think living life a certain way is the most important thing. When they see someone acting a strange way or a way that is different, they react negatively. They get confused because they aren’t used to people not caring about how...
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...The trait that Doodle, one of the protagonists in “The Scarlet Ibis”, possesses is empathy towards all things. Doodle exhibits this trait is when he and his family are eating breakfast in the middle of the story and they hear a loud thud coming from their back yard. The family ventures outside to find a large scarlet ibis, a bird roughly the size of a chicken and native to South America and the islands of the Caribbean, sitting in their tree. The weary and ill looking bird is perched on the highest branch of the tree, resting. When the ibis makes an attempt at flight, it tumbles to the ground, jerks its neck and dies. Doodle shows his empathy to the dead bird when he buries the ibis. “Doodle remained kneeling. ‘I’m going to bury him.’… he carried...
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..."They want me to be perfect, but they don't know that I'm hurting." In the short story, "A Scarlet Ibis," the narrator, also known in the story as "Brother," is faced with the embarrassment of having a younger brother, Doodle, who is not physically able to walk, so the narrator sets out to teach his "disabled" brother to walk, even if Doodle does not agree with it. Brother caused Doodle's death because he was embarrassed,he did not care about Doodle's health concerns, and he left him in the thunderstorm. The narrator causes Doodle's death because he was embarrassed of his younger brother's disability. "Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother."(419) Over the course of a couple months, after a lot of hard...
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...The Scarlet Ibis is an abbreviated adventure by James Hurst aberrant the adverse adventure of Doodle, a debilitated kid and his sibling, the storyteller. Doodle's activity has been a progression of a breast calamities; the capital acumen he is animate is the admiration and tirelessness – and alternate remorselessness – of his sibling. Sibling's just afflatus is to access Doodle to like altered accouchement befitting in apperception the end ambition to advance a cardinal ambit from the abasement of accepting a six-year-old affinity who can't walk, abacus up to what is, generally, an action with his own accurate self-image. As the adventure gain with, Brother tries to achieve the hopeless aperture in his affection acquired by his abasement and...
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...The theme that I have chosen for Tangerine is that bad events can lead to good and faithful events. An example of a theme of this in the book is on page 94. After the events of the huge sinkhole at his school he was offered two choices. The first choice was to begin school at one thirty pm and end at seven pm and the second choice was to transfer to Tangerine Middle School without an IEP so he could play for their soccer team. Another example of this theme is on page 258. What happened was Tino attacked Erik and Arthur for Luis Cruz. Coach Warner went to obtain Tino but Paul leaped on him causing him to lose grip. Paul's consequence was a suspension from all public schools. He was then forced to attend St.Anthony's. Although he had to leave...
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...Within the book Scarlet Ibis, the author scattered the technique of symbolism throughout the novel because one’s love for an object can be so exponential, but an overcasting dislike is casted because of society's out line of being “regular”, and if anything does not conform to the community's rigid guideline, then it is rejected, or practically thrown out of all social animation. Either it was the author's strenuous need for Doodle to walk, or Doodles longing to rest, Doodles disability was not just showed through Doodle but his surroundings; for instance when Doodle first began to move on his own, the author said,“Daddy built him a go-cart and I had to pull him around. At first I paraded him up and down the piazza, but then he started crying to be taken into the yard, and ended up having to lug him everywhere.” The go-kart showed his disability and his weakness because his brother viewed it as a burden and something to be disliked, maybe foreshadowing his hate for his brother. But with viewing the go-kart with a negative tone gave the symbol to the reader that the go-kart, much like Doodles disability is bad, and is to be deemed sort of unworthy for the normal human. Despite Doodles efforts in the passage, he was never able to complete his goal to illustrate right after the exotic bird was found the writer exclaimed “At they moment the bird began to flutter, but the wings were uncoordinated, and amid much flapping and a spray of feather, it tumbled down, bumping through the limbs...
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...A Fatal Consequence of Selfishness in the Scarlet Ibis How often does one act without regard for those around them? It is incredibly easy to become selfish in one’s actions. “The Scarlet Ibis” shows this in Brother’s actions in regard to his younger brother, Doodle. He only assists him when it benefits himself, and throughout his life Brother forces Doodle into activities and abandons him with no thought as to why this is inconsiderate. James Hurst’s “The Scarlet Ibis” uses foreshadowing and symbols to show how selfishness leads to severe consequences, even fatal ones, and the overall maltreatment of others. The family of Doodle commits many selfish actions which foreshadow the demise of Doodle. Early on in their lives, Brother takes Doodle...
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...“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is about William Armstrong, also known as Doodle, who had a physical and mental condition. When he was born William’s brother was six years old, and when William died his brother was thirteen. The story is called “The Scarlet Ibis” because the family saw a bird dying in their backyard which was far away from its native land, and William died away from his home. Mr. Hurst was born in North Carolina at a farm by the sea. He studied singing and in Italy and he became a banker. During his thirty four years as a banker he also published a few short stories including “The Scarlet Ibis”. I personally did not like how the story went but I do like how Mr. Hurst wrote it. I also like how he referred the scarlet ibis...
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...We all have our opinion, some good some bad, some of them are right and some of them are wrong, some people speak it outloud and others hold it in. But whatever your opinion is it don't matter to me, I won't think differently of you, so I expect the same from you. First things first my opinion in James Thirst short story, The Scarlet Ibis, is that the brother did it. Thers is just so much evidence from the story that point too brother and there is no way you could say he's not guilty. There are some good things that brother does but the bad outweighs the good. First off brother really did not show that much love to brother to Doodle. He would always gripe about taking him every where he went and stuff. If you really loved someone you would...
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...Kwame Alexander is an award winning, young adults book author and poet. The Crossover is a fictional story. The author choose to write this story a little different than most. He chose to write it in poem form rather than a chapter book. Josh Bell, also known as “Filthy McNasty”, the protagonist, and his twin brother Jordan Bell, love the game of basketball. Their dad played professional basketball, but had to retire, so the boys grew up around basketball their entire lives. One of the struggles the twins have is to deal with their dad having medical problems. It is hard for them to see their dad sick, because they look up to him. In another part, Josh gets mad at Jordan during a game and passes the ball too hard at Jordan’s face, almost...
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