The Scarlet Ibis, Girls, Dangerous Pie, And Doogle's

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Many people have shared humanity of relationship, loss, choice, morality, emotional, and survival that they go through. The three stories that have this types of humanity are, “The Scarlet Ibis,” by James Hurst, Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick, and How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff. This three stories will have relationship, morality, loss and emotions. The short story “The Scarlet Ibis” shares a perspective of morality, knowing from between right and wrong. Doodle was born with a tiny body, his skin was red. Everybody thought he was going to die, but he survived. Doodle’s brother the narrator, talks about his brother that he wanted to have a normal baby brother. The narrator had a dark side, he hated taking his brother …show more content…

The narrator only did for himself because he didn’t want his brother by his side because he thought his brother was an embarrassment. Evidence in the short story when Doodle could finally walk, Doodle’s brother decided to show his parents as a surprise, he then starts to notice something, “ “What are you crying for?” asked Daddy, but I couldn’t answer. They did not know that I did it for myself, that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices, and Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother”(Hurst, 2003). The narrator realizes that he did not do it for his brother he did for himself neither for his parents. He shows morality. The selfishness of him, made him think how his brother’s suffrage was going through, but Doodle does not know that. This frustrates me because the way his brother, the narrator, treated Doodle. He …show more content…

Daisy and Edmond are cousins but they do not see each other like that. They see each other like a love relationship of boyfriend and girlfriend. This show in the story when Daisy had felt for Edmond, “Look at me with a little half-smile and then kissed me on the mouth so gently and sweetly,” (Rosoff, 45). When Edmond kissed Daisy things started to change they started to sneak out at night to get to together, but this never ruined Daisy’s cousins relationship like a family. Her cousins were alright with the relationship. But today in the real world if a cousins gets together to have a relationship like Edmond and Daisy it would be a big problem people will be disgusted and nobody in the real world will disagree the relationship. In my opinion the relationship they had was bad they were cousins but then in the end the author wanted us to have Edmond and Daisy back together again and have a happy

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