The Rich Brother

No Longer Searching Nearly everyone has a different definition of the word rich; however, the inference can be made that many people consider someone who is" rich" to be plentiful, abundant and content. " The Rich Brother," by Tobias Wolff, is a short story about two vastly different brothers. Pete, the older brother, who has a family and a stable job, and Donald, the younger brother, who has neither a family nor a stable job; however, he seems to be more generous (324). Due to the brothers being completely opposite, controversy is created as to whom Wolff is foreshadowing in the title as the rich brother.

Losing Doodle “It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love over your pride. ”(Unknown) Pride is a powerful thing. It can kill and raise up, it can keep you from admitting your wrong.

Brother is cruel to Doodle.   When Doodle goes riding on the go-cart with Brother, Brother purposely hurts him to discourage him from riding with him. Brother doesn’t like having this image of the invalid brother, who can’t walk.  

“through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves, but deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune” this dictum said by derrick bell, professor of law talks about how the pride impact our life and how it leads us make the wrong decision. the “scarlet ibis” by james hurst tells us a tragedy same with this sentence----every plot in the story is leaded by that. although there are lots of theme in the story, I still think the central theme of the story is pride. To beginning with, overall the story we could discover that the author only considers for himself, although he tries hard to help his brother to do the normal things which a healthy boy could do, and even he success, the result is still being as an appendage of what he dreams

In the book “Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst Brother don’t really care about his brother Doodle very much. He don’t like that he is different and doesn’t like that he can’t do anything on his own. But Brother learns to give Doodle a chance and ends up loving him. Brother is a pretty good brother by the end and of the book.

The narrow- mindedness of society in The Scarlet Ibis is portrayed through Brother’s prejudiced attitude towards Doodle. “It was bad enough having an invalid brother..... (pg. 2)” Since the disappointing birth of his younger sibling, Brother has been preoccupied with a major obsessive thought; how shameful it is to have a crippled brother. The need to not be seen as inferior, alongside Doodle, by society motivates Brother to teach his younger sibling to behave normally.

Is the narrator responsible for the death of doodle. Yes, the narrator is responsible for the death of doodle because, he was with doodle in the storm them he had started sprinting away from doodle as doodle is saying don't leave me brother, but the narrator keeps on running until he can hear his voice no more. What i think is that the narrator had run away from doodle since he thought he was a burden to him. (In page2 paragraph 2) he says that doodle is a burden in many ways.

It comes to no surprise that teenagers may have a rough and challenging relationship at times with their parents. In a short story, “Stop The Sun”, by Gary Paulsen, there is a boy named Terry and he is the son of a Vietnam War veteran. Terry wants to figure out why his father acts so strange and he wants to know why his father's eyes always go away. Terry struggles to find these answers, but that doesn’t mean he gives up.

Goals can drive a man to great lengths to get what he wants even to the point of insanity and recklessness. Gatsby had great plans almost living the “American Dream” living in a waterfront mansion, acquiring endless amounts of money and even throwing lavish and exquisite parties and almost getting his “dream girl”. At the beginning of the story it seemed that Gatsby acquired greatness, but we later realize that the man we thought we knew was carrying out his life to get Daisy despite her marriage with Tom. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, the main character Gatsby had great plans for the future, but his ways of carrying out those plans defined his character as weak and menial, since he degraded his family, attempted to steal

Jacinta Claire Fernandez AGF130008 Dr. Nicholas O. Pagan ACGB 6311 American Literature Paper #2 30th December 2014 Uncovering the Mask: A Jungian Analysis of Anson Hunter from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Rich Boy”. F. Scott Fitzgerald remains to this day, one of the greatest contributors to the vast realm of American Literature. “The Rich Boy”, published in 1926, bares similarities to The Great Gatsby.

In the “Scarlet Ibis”, Brother is characterized as loving, ambitious, and cruel, through diction, plot, imagery, figurative language, and point of view. He is characterized as loving, because, at the end of the story, he becomes very upset at Doodle’s death. Also, he tries to train Doodle to walk, even though he’s at a disadvantage physically. Lastly, through the course of the story he plays with Doodle in Old Woman’s Swamp, and if he didn’t love him he’d abandon Doodle in the swamp to die.

The story, “The Scarlet Ibis”is a story about a young boy in the book who only goes by “Brother” and in the book he has a younger brother named William Armstrong but goes by doodle. The main theme in, “The Scarlet Ibis” is about pride shouldn’t become the main focus in life. Brother contributes to the main theme of pride through the whole story in various different ways. Brother first contributes to the main theme of the book from the start when his brother is born.