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Compare And Contrast The Sniper And Scarlet Ibis

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In the stories The Sniper and Scarlet Ibis the protagonists both lost their brothers. In the first story the sniper. The Sniper and his brother were on different sides of the war. He didn't know his brother was on the other side on the other building and he was shooting at him. He didn't know it was his own brother tell he came down from the building and looked at who he had shot. The other story the scarlet Ibis his brother was born with a disease and was supposed to die but he didn't. His parents made him take his brother everywhere with him in his wagon because he couldn't walk. He decided to teach him to walk so he wouldn't have to pull him. He taught him how to walk then decided to teach him to swim. When he was trying to teach him to

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