Having too much pride can cause you to overlook actions and only see the result of what you are doing. In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” brother gets to much pride from teaching Doodle to walk so he creates a program to teach Doodle to swim,run, climb trees and to fight. He worked Doodle till he turned purple.“And I prepared a terrific development program …show more content…
When brother has confidence and pride he can accomplish more with Doodle. HE has determination to make Doodle do all the things he does. “Making them cross their hearts and hope to die if they peeked. I helped Doodle up, and when he was standing alone I let them look. There wasn’t a sound as Doodle walked slowly across the room and sat down at his place at the table. Then Mama began to cry and ran over to him, hugging him and kissing him. Daddy hugged him too, so I went to Aunt Nicey, who was thanks praying in the doorway, and began to waltz her around”(Hurst 3). This shows that Brother has a lot of confidence because he and his family celebrate with Doodle after he walks across the room on his own. Since Brother has this confidence he can help Doodle so other things such as fighting and swimming because he is determined but he trains Doodle till he turns purple. Having a lot of pride is a good thing since Brother wants to help Doodle and he can do that better with more confidence. Having a lot of pride can be a good thing because it can give you determination to do something.
Brothers pride is a good and bad thing because he can get to confident and push Doodle too far but it can be a good thing because he is determined to get Doodle to walk,swim and run. Pride can be a bad thing because it can make you overlook your actions and you only see the goal. It can