The Scarlet Ibis

Pride, one of the 7 deadly sins, can overcome peoples lives and thoughts. This is what has happened in the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”, written by James Hurst tells a story of a young boy who’s pride has overcome him, and eventually hurts someone very close to him. The story, set in the northern North Carolina coastline consists of a Doodle, his mother and father, and his older brother. Doodle, born paralyzed has somehow …

…has come to kill his younger brother, which in turn affects his family, friends, himself, and of course, Doodle. It affected everybody that is close to him, because he has been killed, and will no longer be around to be loved by anybody, but will only be able to be loved by his spirits. Pride, probably one of the most horrible things on earth, can only come to hurt yourself, or someone close to you.