Scarlet Ibis Death Symbol

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In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, the author uses the symbol of death to show how breaking expectations led to the main character's demise. When Brother tells the reader how death shows breaking expectations, Brother and Doodle are working on standing because Brother is ashamed of having a crippled brother. Then all the hard work on getting Doddle to stand pays off, Doddle stands on his own “I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death” (Hurst 3). Brother only wanted that pride for himself, so now Brother doesn't feel like he will be a loser in school now that Doddle can walk. When Brother tells the reader that death doesn't care about anything, “even death did