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The Scarlet Ibis By James Hurst Theme Statement

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Why do people hurt the one’s they love? People everywhere do things to family that they reget, same as in this story.The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, a young kid has a baby brother. He is very happy because he wants someone to play with him. When his brother is born, he is a cripple. They name him William Armstrong, a name only good on a tombstone, tehy later name him Doodle. Doodle’s brother is ashamed of having a cripple brother and hates him. When he is five year old, Doodle’s brother teachs him to walk. He takes pride in it and thinks he can fix Doodle. He starts loving Doodle after this. After a year, he wants to teach Doodle to swim and climb, after a storm they find a red bird, a Scarlet Ibis and doodle burys it. Before a storm they go down to the swamps and practice with swim. Doodle fails, its starts raining and they run back. With broke pride his brother leaves him. After a little bit he goes looking for Doodle and finds him under a bush. He is dead and his brother was his scarlet ibis. The theme is Pride can be a dangeuons thing and is showen by important statements. …show more content…

At a young age Doodle wants to go with his brother everywhere: “To discourage him coming with me, I’d run with him across the ends of the cotton rows and carren him around corners on two wheels” ( Hurst 465). When Doodle was five, his older brother was embarrassed with having a brother you could not walk. So he helped his brother learn, after a few weeks of trying to stand up. On Doodle’s sixth birthday he walked: “That Doodle only walked because I was ashamed of having a crippied brother” (468). After that, he wants to teach Doodle to swim and climb but before they can do that a storm comes. Before another storm comes they go down to the swamps and start by rowing a boat. As the storm comes they go back, Doodle did very bad at rowing the boat and fell out when they

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