Adversity In 'The Scarlet Ibis' By James Hurst

James Hurst uses suspense, characterization, and imagery in the “Scarlet Ibis” to convey that pride is a wonderful/terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines life and death. The author uses suspense to convey the message that the reader is thinking about what will happen to doodle. This is seen when doodle said “brother brother don’t leave me” (441). This example states that doodle does not like being alone. This helps convey the theme by stating that doodle has been the center of attention since he was born so he is used to everybody being around him and making him feel loved by his parents.

All my girl friends tell me so.”(Wilde 11). This also hints a bit about what kind of a person she is regarding secrets. It is highly likely that her brother would not want all his actions made public knowledge, but she’s so ‘lovestruck’ that she just mindlessly says whatever comes to her. A demonstration of what a fickle person she is, is shown when she first meets Cecily. When they are first acquainted, Gwendolen tells her, “Something tells me that we are going to be great friends.

Dr. Jekyll is viewed as a smart man with a lot of knowledge, however, due to Jekyll not being satisfied with his life, he is determined to get more out of his live and is willing to do anything to fulfill his determination. Dr. Jekyll expresses this when he states, “[A] grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside… [t]here was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an innocent freedom of the soul.” (Stevenson 57). Dr. Jekyll is in a state of happiness at this point of the text.

It is the reason the world possesses beauty and the reason it possesses evil. Regardless of one’s personal perception of pride, I believe it is an important topic to explore through literature, current events, and through aspects of our own daily lives. Pride is recurring theme in the aforementioned story, “The Scarlet Ibis.” In the story, the narrator seeks to train his handicapped brother, Doodle, to play like a regular, unafflicted boy. He says “But all of us must have something or someone to be proud of, and Doodle had become mine” (Hurst 2). In stating this, the narrator points out the value of pride, which is its power to inspire improvement.

“It’s okay to feel… emotions, it’s how we deal with them that makes us the people we are” -From the creators of Pixar’s Inside Out. Emotions are what creates who we are and what characteristics we acquire whether it’s a positive or negative. In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” by James Hurst, Brother is characterized as loving but selfish by the emotions he shows towards his disabled brother Doodle. First, James Hurst portrays Brother as loving. For example, Brother was told that even though Doodle can live, he might not be “all there”, so every day he would go and watch his brother to find out if he is “all there”.

Special treatment due to a physical or mental challenge reveals the strength and true character inside, When a challenge, or adversity comes up, a good character is usually revealed, although in some cases a person isn’t caring or selfless inside. Adversity can cause the bad inside someone to come out. In “The Scarlet Ibis,” the narrator teaches his physically disabled brother to walk. “Once I succeeded in teaching Doodle I began to believe in my own infallibility, and I prepared a terrific development program for him, unknown to Mama and Daddy of course” (Scarlet Ibis, Hurst). After succeeding he keeps trying to get Doodle to be more like everyone else.

The extreme collectivist community potrayed shows the polar opposite of egoism. Equality immediately gets set appart by his intellectual abilities leading to his substantial discoveries. Evidently his ideas are rejected and he’s shunned for his intelligence and creativity. Nevertheless, this is for the better, for it is then that he perhaps has his greatest thought: “To be free a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom.

Kourtney Kardashian had always been very patient with Scott Disick. Although she had fronted to be tough, deep down she definitely would love Disick to straighten up and finally be a good model to their three young kids, 6-year-old Mason, 3-year-old Penelope and 1-year-old Reign. Now that the self-proclaimed Lord has returned to his partying ways, Kardashian is understandably devastated about it. “A smile hides my pain, a hug masks my heartache, and a laugh covers my tears,” the 36-year-old reality star tweeted the same night that her baby daddy was out partying in Las Vegas with NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel. A smile hides my pain, a hug masks my heartache, and a laugh covers my tears.

One of the biggest rewards that an individual can gain and appreciate is the reward of learning life lessons as they apply it to their lives to fine other’s opinions of them and make people value them as a whole. Perhaps the biggest expression of this in an individual is Odysseus from Homer’s novel, The Odyssey. Odysseus is a strong minded, independent hero who doesn’t acknowledge the assistance that others can bring which, in turn, jeopardizes others as is clearly evident in his boastful comment, “I say cyclops! If ever any one asks who put out your ugly eye, tell him your blinder was Odysseus, conqueror of Troy, son of Laërtês, whose address is in Ithaca!”(110). In Greek mythology, belief in the gods and their importance became an essential

While the pride of Brother fills him with the undying effort or pressure as seen by Doodle, it compels Doodle to perform such action his brother deem is worthy of practicing and performing on the regular. The basis for my argument is the direct mentioning of how Doodle is obviously abnormal to every other child of his age. Falling behind in basic skills, and as well as social ones; Doodle continues to fall short of being regular and brother efforts seems to divulge into pride more than care. Of the many examples that was shown in the short story, I have decided to pull three of them for purpose of giving truth to his self evident pride of Doodle in relation to the struggle that Doodle faces. These examples are as followed; “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable” (Pg 595).