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A theme in "The Scarlet Ibis" is that Selfish acts can have effects on the future that you will regret. This is shown by the fact that the protagonist only helps his brother for the benefit that he will not have to carry him around, this is later "paid" with the antagonist dying and the protagonist crying his death." They didn't know that I did it just for myself, that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother....I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar. "Doodle!" I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis."(¶15,¶31) This shows that the selfish actions of the speaker had major consequences.

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The second piece of foreshadowing comes when the bird dies. This is because if the bird has a connection with Doodle, it means that Doodle would die tragically some where in the story. " At that moment, the bird began to flutter. It tumbled down through the bleeding tree and landed at our feet with a thud. Its graceful neck jerked twice and then straightened out, and the bird was still." (¶21). "For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis."(¶31). This paragraph and sentence shows that there was a connection between the bird and Doodle.

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In "The Scarlet Ibis", there are two pieces of foreshadowing that go together. The first example demonstrates the disappointment of both Doodle and the bird. "Doodle was about the craziest brother a boy ever had. Doodle was born when I was seven and was, from the start, a disappointment." (¶2), "Sadly, we all looked at the bird. How many miles had it traveled to die like this, in our yard, beneath the bleeding tree?" (¶22). This shows that the bird was a disappointment because he failed in his path like Doodle when he was born.

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The story tells us how the bird looks, " On the topmost branch perched a bird the size of a chicken, with scarlet feathers and long legs"(¶20). This shows the beauty of the bird and how it would awe the characters.

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In "The Scarlet Ibis", there is imagery in paragraph 2 that describes how Doodle looked when he was little. "He seemed all head, with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man's."(¶2). This shows us why they might have said that Doodle was a disappointment.

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This story also symbolizes that hard work is worth it if you put your heart in it and not your selfish emotions into it. This is shown by the fact that the protagonist work went to an end once he stopped believing and only had his intentions of not having to carry his brother in mind."...Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother." (¶15). "He slipped on the mud and fell. I helped him up, and h smiled at me ashamedly. He had failed and we both knew it."(¶24)

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"The Scarlet Ibis" symbolizes how wrong doing can become into pain and regret in the future, how your actions effect the future and how you will regret ever doing the wrong actions you did in the past. In the middle and end of this short fiction story, the protagonist ends up being sad that his brother died and he probably live in shame that he only helped his brother for himself and not for him nor his family. He also probably regrets never going back when his brother needed him the most. "What are you crying for?" asked Daddy, but I couldn't answer. They didn't know that I did it just for myself, that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother"(¶15). "I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar. "Doodle!" I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis."(¶31)

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The third and less noticeable conflict in the story is human versus self. In "The Scarlet Ibis", we can infer that the protagonist feels saddened by his thought's of cruelty against his younger brother. This is shown by the way that he has seen the same emotions on other people and feels sadness, "There is inside me (and with sadness I have seen it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love. And at times I was mean to Doodle."(¶8) and by the way that he cries when his parents hug him for teaching Doodle to walk because he knows he only did it because of him being ashamed of having a ill brother,  "Doodle told them it was me who had taught him to walk, so they wanted to hug me, and I began to cry....Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother".(¶14-15)

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The second, but most noticeable conflict is human versus human. In "The Scarlet Ibis", the protagonist (the speaker) is getting annoyed or is ashamed of having a ill brother, "I'm going to teach you to walk, Doodle," I said. "Why?" "So I won't have to haul you around all the time"(¶9-10) "...Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother."(¶15)

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In "The Scarlet Ibis", the main conflict is human versus nature. This conflict is seen throughout the story since it is inferred that the protagonist and antagonist are dealing with the illness that the antagonist (Doodle) is dealing with. This is shown by the fact that the speaker is ashamed of having a brother who is "crippled", "They didn't know that I did it just for myself, that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother."(¶15)

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Speaker-Protagonist                          Doodle-Antagonist
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From the beginning of the story, through indirect characterization, we learn that Doodle has an illness and through direct characterization that he was a disappointment, "Doodle was born when I was seven and was, from the start, a disappointment. He seemed all head, with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man's. Everybody thought he was going to die."(¶2) We also learn that his illness makes him weak and he can't walk, "When he crawled on the rug, he crawled backwards, as if he were in reverse and couldn't change gears... Daddy built him a cart and I had to pull him around."(¶4, ¶5)
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Throughout the story and direct characterization,we learn that the speaker is Doodle's brother ad through direct characterization that he is the older brother, "Doodle was about the craziest brother a boy ever had. Doodle was born when I was seven... "what's the matter" "it's so pretty, Brother, so pretty."(¶2, ¶7) Through direct characterization we learn that the speaker is mean to his brother and that he is ashamed of having his brother, "And at times I was mean to Doodle...I was ashamed of having a crippled brother."(¶8, ¶15)

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In "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst the speaker retells the story about his brother. The speaker begins by giving us a description about his brother's birth. The speaker tells us how he felt cruelty being held by his love for Doodle (his brother). The speaker helps Doodle walk and is trying to get him to go to school and not to be different from the other kids. One Saturday noon, they see a Scarlet Ibis die by the bleeding tree, his brother decides to bury it. Later that noon, they go to "Horsehead Landing" for swimming lessons when rain starts pouring down on them. They began to run back home when lighting hits a tree. The speaker keeps running faster and ignores his brother's screams. After the rain calms down he goes looking for his brother since he wasn't back home yet. He ends up finding his brother by a nightshade bush and his brother has dead. The speaker tells us that his brother's death was the fall of his Scarlet Ibis.