The Scarlet Ibis

A detailed Summary of The Scarlet Ibis

Pride, one of the 7 deadly sins, can overcome peoples lives and thoughts.

This is what has happened in the short story, "The Scarlet Ibis", written by

James Hurst tells a story of a young boy who's pride has overcome him, and

eventually hurts someone very close to him. The story, set in the northern

North Carolina coastline consists of a Doodle, his mother and father, and his

older brother. Doodle, born paralyzed has somehow embarrassed his older

brother because he can not walk. That, is when the pride comes in, when he

got so embarrassed, he decides to try and teach him how to walk, so that he

would not have to carry him around everywhere, not for his brothers sake, but

for his own sake. Pride is a horrible thing, and it shows in this story, not only

hurting yourself, but your family and people close to you (friends).

Doing something for the sake of yourself instead of others will

eventually only hurt yourself in the long run. As you can see, pride did hurt

the person who committed it in the story. When the older brother says, "Shut

up. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm going to teach you to walk." This truly

friends wouldn't care, they would like him and think he is cool. If they

brother, in the worst kind of way. The pride was so bad that it has come to

you should never let it overcome you. In the story, pride over came the older

important, and we all need them, to be supportive of us, and to care for us.

has been saddened because of pride. "What are you crying for?" directed to

Approximate Word count = 790
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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