I suck so i was wondering if i could get some pointers?
Essay
The significance of this quote“Pride is a wonderful thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death” is basically saying that being prideful can cause death, just like it did in “The Scarlet Ibis”. The brother wasn’t going to let his brother’s disabilities to interfere with him having a normal life and by doing so he was the reason he died. “I thought myself pretty smart at many things, like holding my breath, running, jumping, or climbing the vines in Old Woman Swamp, and I wanted more than anything else someone to race to Horsehead Landing, someone to box with, and someone to perch with in the top fork of the great pine behind the barn, where across the fields and swamps you could see the sea.” That right there is an example from the story telling that he wanted a brother to do all those things with and he didn’t care if he was going to have to teach him extra hard to get it since he was being greedy. Being prideful doesn’t cause just death; he still could’ve been prideful but not push his brother as hard and he probably would’ve lived.” When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to try to move himself, straining terribly. The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn’t. “I wanted to add this quote in here since it proves that it wasn’t just the brother that wanted him to be able to do all that stuff but the brother himself wanted to push himself also so he could try to live like a normal boy.
Outline
I. The narrator of “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst makes the story more realistic because it like sucks you into it and you part of the story. It is nearly impossible not to cry at the end because you feel like he is your own brother. It is written in a first person view.
II. I thought myself pretty smart at many things, like holding my breath, running, jumping, or climbing the vines in Old Woman Swamp.
III. I wanted more than anything else someone to race to Horsehead Landing, someone to box with, and someone to perch with in the top fork of the great pine behind the barn.
IV. James Hurst knows that by using a first person point of view that he is making you part of the family so that you don’t want to stop reading.
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