In The Fog Horn, a monster comes by the lighthouse once a year. “It learned you can’t love anything too much…” Once the monster realized the lighthouse wasn’t a monster, he destroyed it. A main theme throughout The Fog Horn is loneliness. “I’ll make a sound so alone no one will miss it.” This foreshadows the monsters’ feelings at the end of the story. The need for companionship caused the monster to destroy the lighthouse and showed he should’ve valued it. Always value something important because it could be gone the next day. Most people value family members, but in The Scarlet Ibis, Brother didn’t value Doodle until after Doodle died. “Of course he wasn’t crazy, crazy …but he was nice, crazy. This shows Brother did care for Doodle, even though his actions didn’t show it. “There’s within me… a knot of cruelty.” Brother realized he was mean to Doodle when looking back at his childhood. When looking back in life, Brother knew he was cruel to Doodle and he wished he could change his