The Scarlet Ibis Quote Analysis

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In "The Scarlet Ibis," the author James Hurst uses references to death to show when your pride gets in the way it can cause you to make big mistakes. In the story the character Brother makes everything about himself. The first example is he pushed his younger brother Doodle until he literally died because Brother didn't want a disabled brother. The second example I chose to show this is a quote that Brother said at the end of the story "I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen ibis." This shows an example of the bad mistake Brother made because his pride got in the way. The last example is another quote at the beginning of the story before we knew who Doodle was. This quote shows the regret that foreshadows the end of the story "time with
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