Guilt Quotes In Scarlet Ibis

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For someone to feel guilt for something they did is truly a horrible feeling. It is something that will carry on with that person for the rest of his life. In James Hurst's "Scarlet Ibis" Brother, the main character, feels that terrible guilt towards the way he treated his younger brother Doodle. Brother since the beginning let his pride take over and make Doodle do things that were almost impossible to learn in his condition. The story tells about two brothers growing up together and how the older brother let his pride push his handicapped brother a little to far. Brother is guilty for letting his pride get in the way of what was right and wrong. Also for letting his pride hurt someone he loves, his baby brother Doodle. There was many ways that Brother could be fined guilty for his brother's death, and this is one. Brother would always try to find a way to get rid of Doodle, "To discourage his coming with me, I'd run with him across the ends of the cotton rows and careen him around corners on two wheels." (596). He was ashamed of having to take his little brother everywhere he went. He also didn't want to have to carry his little brother who wasn't like others around everywhere he went, in fear he would slow him down. He thought if he could scare …show more content…

This is another way he is guilty. Brother decides to teach Doodle to walk, because they are both getting older, "When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn't walk, so I sat out to teach him." (597). With Doodle not being able to walk still, but so close to starting school it scared his Brother. It scared him, because he didn't want to be teased because of his brother's condition. He thought he would teach him even though the doctors told him and his family that Doodle couldn't learn to walk, because it can be mentally and physically harming for

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