https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1 In 150-250 words, please describe your reaction to the short story by James Hurst, "The Scarlet Ibis." You may write about any element you wish: characters, their motivations, themes, setting, plot, problem and solution, use of figurative language, etc. Please be sure to explain. Include ONE piece of textual evidence. en-us 2016-09-19 15:17:43 UTC 2016-11-15 20:40:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/notebook.jpg https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124882368 The short story "The Scarlet Ibis" that we read meant a lot to me. I had not realized how to read a story for so much detail before, but the way that I had seen this, I felt like a pro. To start off, the main idea. The main Idea of this short story was that sometimes, it's much better to think about yourself instead of others. I can tell this when the narrator says "I was embarrassed to have a brother that age who couldn't walk, so I set out to teach him." This sentence speaks to me in a different way. The narrator taught Doodle how to walk, but not for the benefit of Doodle, but for himself. The narrator was selfish and didn't think about how to help Doodle. This shows a lot about the narrator's character. I can see now that Doodle died due to a lack of care from the narrator, who left Doodle out by himself trying to push Doodle to the extreme. To conclude, after reading this short story, I learned that I should help out other who need it, not for my own benefit, but to help out others.]]> 2016-09-19 19:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124882368 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124885606 The passage "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst really made me think today.  Really looking into the story and close reading was getting easier as I read more and more.  The main idea or theme was to care about others before you think about yourself sometimes.  The narrator was very selfish and cruel to his younger brother William aka Doodle, For example, "When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn't walk.  So I set out to teach him." This line makes my heart drop because the narrator was so self-centered and cared about what his friends thought of him and his disabled brother than actually caring for him to help him get better.  Also the text has lots of figurative language, such the phrase "Bleeding tree."  This phrase showed a lot about the setting of this short story and if there house is in the forest a neighborhood etc. The Scarlet Ibis was one of the most meaningful texts I have ever read, I could also relate a little bit with my brother wanting the best for him, although I can't relate to my sibling having a disability I do understand. ]]> 2016-09-19 19:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124885606 17tnoesges https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124892067 "The Scarlet Ibis" was a very interesting but sad story. I thought it was a sad story because the narrator was being very mean to his brother Doodle. He tried to kill his own brother! In the text, it says "I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow." The narrator was awful to his brother and he was also very selfish. No one should ever be mean to their siblings especially the way that the narrator was acting towards Doodle.  When the narrator was bullying his brother, he didn't care about him at that time and the narrator didn't benefit anyone in that situation. The narrator probably regrets all the mean things he did to his brother, because Doodle wouldn't do that to him. Living a good life includes helping other people. Although the narrator helped Doodle walk he said he "was embarrassed to at having a brother who couldn't walk". The narrator wasn't very nice to his brother at this time too. This story's theme or main idea is to care about other people instead of yourself. If you help other people when they need it, they will help you when you need it. By doing this, you can become better friends with those people that you helped, and they can become better friends with you.]]> 2016-09-19 19:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124892067 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124893004 "The Scarlet Ibis" was a strange story and somewhat eerie story. The main character's brother was born shrived and couldn't do anything. The brother taught him how to run and was on the edge of teaching him how to run, swim, climb, and fight because he was embarrassed of his brother. The main character was selfish and mean to his brother but nice to him sometimes. "When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed of having a brother that can not walk. So I set out to teach him." "'Come on Doodle' I urged. 'You can do it. Do you want to be different then everybody else you start school?' 'Does it make a difference' (Doodle said) 'It certainly does'" This shows that the narrator cares about himself and not much about Doodle. In the end of the story, the narrator probably feels bad about leaving Doodle in the rain and doing bad things to him because he is dead now.]]> 2016-09-19 19:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124893004 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124897486 ¨The Scarlet Ibis¨ is a very intriguing story about two young boys that went through a very difficult beginning of there lives. One of the boys was born cripple and was supposed to never be able to walk. His brother was a very challenging on for first years of his life he never even stood up. He crawled and barely had any movement at all, but the main idea of this story is the saying ¨it´s not all about you¨ I chose that because in the story the older brother was trying to teach the younger brother to walk and he pushed him way to hard. I didn't mention that he also had some disabilities like he can get to tired or to hot or to cold so he cant train to hard. At the end of the story the poor kid was trained so hard one day when he was finally running he died as what was expected to happen a long time ago]]> 2016-09-19 20:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124897486 17cwhitehead https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124898633 The short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst was a really good story. Through reading it,it made me so much more aware of how to close real and read for details, and it go a lot clearer and easier as I kept doing it. I saw that the main idea and theme is that you have to sometimes put other before yourself. The narrator of the story was very self center, and was very rude to his brother, he was embarrassed to be seen with him because he couldn’t walk and was disabled. As it says in the text, “When Doodle was five years old I was embarrassed to have a brother that couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him.” This is such a cruel line and really sad, that the narrator would want to teach his brother how to walk because he was embarrassed to be seen with him and that he couldn’t walk. This story actually meant a lot to me and really showed a very important lesson that you should always help others for their benefit, and that seeing the person you helped should make you happy.]]> 2016-09-19 20:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124898633 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124902383 The story “The Scarlet Ibis” is a very detailed story that made me feel emotion which doesn't really happen to often. The amount of detail that the author put into the 2 main characters really made them feel alive so I grew attached to them somewhat resenting the main character. My reasoning for this is that the younger brother doodle was a very sweet boy who was slightly disabled yet the older brother was always mean to him and using him like when he said “so i began making plans to kill him” and “I was embarrassed at  having a brother at that age who couldn't walk”. Even though all of this happened when doodle died I still felt bad for the main character. Although he was mean to Doodle it was very obvious he still loved him and had a good time with him. Even though he was so mean to him and never accepted him he still never deserved Doodle to die.]]> 2016-09-19 20:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124902383 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124904760 After reading the fascinating yet sorrow filled story of "The Scarlet Ibis", rather than having an uplifting or happy ending it was quite depressing. Throughout the story the main idea as well as the theme showed through the characters, setting, etc. As seen in the text, the setting gives the story a doleful mood, before even knowing about Doodle (William Armstrong). Eventually, the author briefly informs the reader about  what happened to Doodle once he was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't make it but he did, but was never normal. Despite, the trouble just a baby went through, his brother treated him like nothing. When his brother had to take care of him carefully he completely disregarded that. Oddly enough, his brother was the one that taught him how to walk at age 5. But only because it embarrassed him. Another example of his selfishness. After some time, Doodles brother actually began to admire Doodle but in the end Doodle died after training so hard because his determination got the best of him. All and all, the theme of the story is that throughout everything it's never right to be selfish because you never know if you'll have a tomorrow.

]]> 2016-09-19 20:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124904760 17mroeder https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124908240 In the short story “Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst I was able to identify the elements of literature in the story. A key element was problem and solution. Through the course of the story there were many examples of how this was displayed. One example was when Doodle, the narrator's brother, was born not being able to walk. It says on page 418 “ Oh, you can walk, I said, and I took him by the arms and stood him up.” The narrator was determined to make Doodle walk but only because he was embarrassed by Doodle. Doodle gradually learned how to walk and they conquered that problem even though the doctor said he wouldn’t be able to walk. I saw determination in Doodle and he was a true fighter. Another problem I noticed was at the end of the story and Doodle and the narrator were caught in a hurricane and were not close to home. Knowing that Doodle couldn’t run the narrator would have had to carry him home. Doodle had a fear of being left alone and the narrator knew this. The self centered narrator choose to leave Doodle behind and save himself. He thought Doodle would follow and learn how to run! He looked back and couldn’t see him and the outcome was, he was dead. The narrator was beyond sad and he realized what he had done. At the end of the story he realized how much he loved him even with all his flaws. ]]> 2016-09-19 21:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124908240 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124914778 The story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst was a very good and detailed. When I would close read it made me get a better understanding for the story. This story was very sad and very tragic. Through the story I was able to figure out the theme and the main idea, and that is to think of others before you think of your self. In the story the narrator really made it clear how to not think of others before your self. One example is on page 418 when the narrator was showing him his casket. The text says " "And before I help you down you have to touch it" 
"I wont touch it", he said sullenly 
"Then i'll leave you here by yourself" I threatened, and made as if I were going down." I think that this definitely shows a great example of the narrator being selfish. He's very rude to his little brother and is very self centered. He felt embarrassed to even be seen with him because of his disability. The narrator was so fed up with the fact that he couldn't walk and was disabled that he had to teach him how to. When I do something for someone, I feel very good about my self so that is why this lesson has and will stick with me forever.  ]]> 2016-09-19 21:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124914778 17msuric https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124919276 The short story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst was a very touching and detailed story. The story is about the the narrator's brother Doodle. When Doodle was born everyone thought he was going to die but when he didn't it surprised everyone. The narrator was very happy about having a brother but not happy that his brother couldn't do all the things he wanted him to do. The narrator disliked Doodle so much that he wanted to kill him. In the text it says, "It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly wasn't all there was unbearable so I began to make plans to kill him." This means that at first, the narrator strongly disliked his brother and just wanted to get rid of him. It says in the text, "However, one afternoon as I watched him, . . . . he looked straight at me and grinned . . . 'Mama, he smiled. He's all there! He's all there!" This means that after seeing Doodle smile at him the narrator realized that he liked Doodle and didn't want to kill him. While Doodle was growing up, the narrator was very mean to him. Always torturing him and making him do things he didn't want to. The narrator taught Doodle to walk and wanted to teach him to run, swim, and climb but he didn't want to do it for Doodle he wanted to do it for himself. The narrator pushing Doodle too hard and being mean to him caused Doodle's death. The narrator was self center and mean to Doodle so he deserved something but he did not deserve Doodle's death.]]> 2016-09-19 22:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124919276 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124921257 The story “Scarlet Ibis” is a brilliant piece about a boy who has a disabled little brother. He wished for one for so long but wasn’t accepting of him when he was born. The protagonist was clearly disturbed as you can tell by the text “... so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” and “One day I took him to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all had believed he would die.” This boy is clearly deranged and his sickness leads to his brother Doodle's, death. I have a question to why Doodle was so affected to the bird dying. I get he was a sensitive child but was there more to it? Maybe it was a foreshadow of Doodle dying because the bird was sick just like Doodle and then it died; just like doodle.

]]> 2016-09-19 23:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124921257 17mellis2 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124926040 After reading the interesting yet emotional story, "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst, is about the travels and relationship between a little brother nicknamed "Doodle"  and his older brother, the narrator. Throughout this piece, a there was a lot of tension between the siblings. In other words, a recurring element in the story was problem and solution. One of example of this is when on page 418 the narrator was pressuring William (AKA Doodle) into touching the casket that he was going to be burried in as a child. " 'I won't touch it,' he said sullenly. 'Then I'll leave you here by yourself,' I threatened, and made as if I were going down." This tells the reader that the older brother would do anything to make the younger brother feel pain and depression. In result, this makes the narrator feel even worse when he realizes that he had practically killed Doodle. This is since the narrator could've carried William, but instead  decided to save himself. 

]]> 2016-09-19 23:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124926040 17hmarkulin https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124926382 The story “The Scarlet Ibis” is a short story by James Hurst, and has a very sad plot. The narrator’s brother William Armstrong, nicknamed Doodle, was born with some sort of physical disorder that made everyone who observed him think that he wouldn’t be able to walk. Most people said he wouldn’t even survive birth. Eventually, the narrator teaches him to walk among other things, however is very harsh about it. When Doodle was 7 or 8, the narrator tried teaching him more things to get him prepared for school. The narrator made him row a boat against the tide, but a storm was coming, so Doodle tried rowing faster. When they got on shore, they ran, and lightning was striking not far from where they were. The narrator ran ahead because he was mad at Doodle despite his cries to not leave him. In the text it states, “The knowledge that Doodle’s and my plans had come to naught was bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awakened. I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind…” it states in the text. This shows how mad the narrator was that Doodle hadn’t rowed as well as he wanted. When he had calmed down, the narrator went back, and found Doodle laying on the ground dead. To me, this is such a cruel thing to do to a family member, and after reading, it left me sad and upset that the narrator would do such a thing.]]> 2016-09-19 23:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124926382 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124929461 The story "The Scarlet Ibis" is a passage that tells about the life of the narrator and his disabled little brother, William Armstrong, also known as Doodle. At the beginning of birth everyone thought of Doodle as a disappointment and thought that he should die. In fact, Doodle was supposed to die as the doctor put it. "He was born when I was six and was, from the outset, a disappointment.... Everybody thought he was going to die." After reading this I had so many questions about this child. Why had he turned out this way? How come everybody treats him as a disappointment? Well, as he soon grows older, Doodle begins to beat the odds. The only problem was, nobody was expecting this to happen. They even all ready had his grave set out for him already. The part that affected me the most, was that everybody was treating him like a disappointment as it was. Especially the narrator, or Doodle's older brother. he began to tease him, and beat him down to the ground . Telling him things like, "I was embarrassed of having a brother at that age who couldn't walk. Toward the end of the story, Doodle looses the fight. Dies in a horrifying rain storm in front of his brother. Thinking about this, I remember all of the horrible things his brother did to him. How would you feel, if you tortured your little brother so bad to the point of death?]]> 2016-09-20 00:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/124929461 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125015041 The story "The Scarlet Ibis" is a passage about the narrator, a big brother to a kid with physical disabilities named William Armstrong or Doodle. At birth, the doctors thought that he was going to die, but he proved them wrong. People were disappointed that he was born for some reason. Later on in life, he went the doctors when they said that he was gonna die. People started to get really surprised. One day, Doodles and the narrators parents decide to go and get a go kart for Doodle to sit in and the narrator to push him. After the narrator got tired of it, he started to teach him how to walk and also tortured him also. He made him touch his casket and he would tip him over his go-cart. After a full year of trying to walk, he did it. He was six years old and beat the odds again. The doctors said that he was not ever going to learn how to walk. The narrator also taught him to fight, swim, and run. One day while they were playing a rainstorm hit. The narrator was getting annoyed on how Doodle was basically on his heels. So he ran away from Doodle and Doodle was left by himself. When the narrator went to go out to find him, he was dead on the ground. What a horrible and sad ending to a story]]> 2016-09-20 10:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125015041 17odec https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125127238 My response to the story “Scarlet Ibis” is a little surprised and confused. Reason being is because the narrator of the story, hated his little “doodle bug” brother and grew selfish because of this. He wanted to teach his brother how to walk because he was embarrassed of a brother that couldn’t walk. In the end of this training he wanted to show his parents and ended up crying about it. I guess he realized the selfishness but throughout the story he is still selfish. In the text it says,”Doodle had told them that I had taught him to walk….I began to cry..”.Later on in the story he wants to teach doodle to do other things like run, row, swim, climb, etc., so that way he would be able to go to school. Which I thought it was nice of him seen as he was selfish in the beginning of the story. But, during a storm that was moving toward their town, the narrator and doodle were out practicing his rowing. As soon as they realized that the another storm was heading there way they began to run back to the house. However, doodle fell onto the ground. He yelled out to the narrator but, he left doodle as soon as his selfish self awoke in him. I don’t know how he is not guilty at that time for a death. I was really shocked.

]]> 2016-09-20 15:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125127238 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125128049 After Reading the Story "Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst I was sad. The story was very emotional. It is about a boy named William Armstrong or (Doodle) who was born with a skin disease. By The time he is 5 his brother feels embarrassed because Doddle doesn't know how to walk. Eventually his brother teaches him how to walk and they are best friends. They do everything together. Also he taught him other things like Running, Swimming, Rowing a boat, etc. Doodles Brother wasn't just teaching doodle these things because he needs to know how to do them, He was teaching these things because he was selfish. After we find this out theres even more of a shock. In the end they realize there is a storm heading there way The narrator leaves him behind runs to the house and doodle dies. This made me very sad since we really got to know him.]]> 2016-09-20 15:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125128049 17sspucches https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125249544 The story "Scarlet Ibis" is an emotional story created by James Hurst. The main character, or narrator. is a boy with William, or Doodle, as a brother. Doodle was born with some sort of physical disorder which meant that he couldn't walk or do much on his own. The family he was born into thought that Doodle was a disappointment to his family for having a physical disability, so they thought he was going to eventually die and built him a casket to put his dead body into once he failed at being a human. Once Doodle turned five, the boy was so embarrassed that he decided to teach Doodle how to walk. By the Christmas time, Doodle was walking by himself. The boy also taught Doodle;e how to do "normal" and fun activities. The only reason hie was taught to do these things were because he didn't want to be known as the kid with the brother that can't walk. The end of the story really got me shook. I thought that the boy had changed for the better, but after all the hard work he had done, he just left the kid to die. I was thinking about that all day after I read that part. It actually got me so upset. I wish the ending would have been a more cheery and happy ending.

]]> 2016-09-20 21:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125249544 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125257573 The story ‘’The Scarlet Ibis’’ is emotional and moving. In this story it talks about the narrator's brother named William Armstrong is born not being able to walk. He was told he was going to die but he is a fighter. The narrator was very self-absorbed and bitter. When he talked about his younger brother (Doodle). For instance, ‘’When doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having brother of that age who couldn't walk. So I set out to teach him.’’ This was a very rude thing to say however, I think that narrator is a nice person but being around friends can cause peer pressure because you don't want them to think weird of you. Although it was wrong of him to want to teach Doodle to walk for himself not for Doodle I can see where he is coming from. I think that the narrator pushed his brother way to hard because when you have a disability like that it's not as easy as you think to train them to start waking. They have other symptoms that come along with being crippled and I don’t think that narrator realizes that at the moment. The narrator was again being his selfish self and left Doodle alone in a rainstorm thinking Doodle would run to him, but sadly died. Although this was supposed to happen a while ago it still was a shocker for me. Even though this story was very sad it taught me an important lesson to ’’Help one another because you want to’’ It's important to because words hurt and helping others from the heart means a lot more than doing it because you're embarrassed. 

]]> 2016-09-20 23:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125257573 https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125591378 The story "The Scarlet Ibis" is a emotion filled story with a range of emotions from happy to sad, The story is created by James Hurst. This short story is about a boy/narrator who wanted a brother for the longest time and when he finally received a brother he was acting selfish and planed to kill him because he was ashamed of his brother because he is disabled which makes him very self center and selfish. The little boy's name is William Armstrong when reading the story you discover that he gains a nickname from his family, they call him "doodle" because of a doodle bug.This little boy was so strong he was a fighter and always strong and dealt with all the pain and suffering coming from his brother who would push him overboard and he would push him so hard that one day he started to walk and he didn't do this for doodle he did it because he was so embarrassed to have a disabled brother who couldn't do "Normal" things such as walking . He then started walking by himself and was learning how to par take in "Normal activities." Then end of the story was so sad to me and just when I thought everything was getting better it really was turning out to be worse, the narrator being selfish again and pushing doodle to hard left him all by himself in the middle of a rain storm and was expecting doodle to just run to him but instead doodle had died. This story was very sad for me but it taught me to never use peer pressure and never do something for the sake of my own happiness and for my benefit but to do it for others. This lesson is very important because just by one action you can be making a life or death choice even if you don't expect or mean for it to happen.]]> 2016-09-22 01:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/125591378 17tpaglia https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/128664127 The story "Scarlet Ibis" was full of emotion. It was a very good story. I felt very sad at the ending when the narrator's brother died. The characters of the story were Doodle and the narrator. The setting is the old lady swamp. The problem is Doodle's brother is being mean to him. The solution is the narrator trying to be nice to his brother Doodle. The story is a very long story. The narrator taught his brother to swim, run, and fight. It was a very good story. ]]> 2016-10-06 00:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lmarotta/z5gqjene5jf1/wish/128664127