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Hurst's The Scarlet Ibis: Paragraph Analysis

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The Scarlet Ibis Paragraph
I think Hurst wrote The Scaley Ibis because he wanted to show how Doddle and the scarlet ibis were alike. Both were in unkindly environments and both were fragile and red. The bigger message that he was trying to saw was that just because someone is different doesn't mean you need to change them. “Trembling he'd push himself turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like an old worn-out doll.” It shows that his brother was pushing him so hard to be normal that it turned him red and it ended up killing him. “Even death did not mar its grace for it lat on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers.” He trying to show that they were both red as roses also blood is red which resembles

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