Compare And Contrast A Sound Of Thunder And The Scarlet Ibis

Is it possible for someone to be cruel, but at the same time have love for somebody? Many people would disagree, but this concept is proven to be true through the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. “The Scarlet Ibis” is about how Brother has a sibling named Doodle, who deals with a physical disability and Brother helps Doodle overcome difficulties due to his disability. However, Brother’s cruelty and pride towards Doodle took the best of him resulting in the death of Doodle. Of Mice and Men is about how two men named George and Lennie have differences that make their relationship complex; George is small, quick, and determined, but takes control over Lenny who’s big, but has a mental disability. Sometimes, Lennie’s immature actions bother George, so he’s cruel to Lennie, but they always stick together no matter what the situation is, however, once Lennie did something so unacceptable that it resulted in George killing Lennie. Even though both the main characters in those stories are cruel to their companions, there’s still that strong power of love that bonds them together.

“We’re here to give you the severest thrill a real hunter ever asked for. Travelling you back sixty million years to bag the biggest game in all of Time”(Bradbury 224). The thought of travelling back in time just to shoot a prehistoric beast of the Past is just that; a thought. People now can’t even imagine what it would be like to look a ferocious dinosaur in the eyes, but it may happen one day in the Future. Ray Bradbury paints this picture for us in his incredible story about this unbelievable mystery with figurative language and personification. “A Sound of Thunder” follows a big game hunter, Mr. Eckels, through a Time Safari of the Future and how he completely changes the world around him by disregarding the dangers of Time Travel,

The authors in the narratives, “The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury and “Nethergrave” by Gloria are each about technology altering the life of the main characters. Although both narratives include many different subjects as the story progresses, both explore the idea of emotions affect the way technology is used. Due to their theme, conflict, and setting, the story “The Sound of Thunder” is a better novel than the narrative “Nethergrave”.

The narrator, Brother, tells the story of Doodle, his brother, and his childhood with all his disabilities; starting off by telling about Doodle when he was a baby and toddler, about how he could not do much for himself for a long time, but eventually learns to crawl. He soon moves onto when Doodle got a little older and Brother would have to take him everywhere he went and how the two would take on the mission of teaching Doodle to walk; they spent almost everyday out in the woods making Doodle stronger and stronger. On Doodle’s sixth birthday, they showed the family what he could do;

People being killed every day because they are different. The story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is about a boy with a disorder that made him different from his family. But it's not okay to kill someone just for own Pride.

I am comparing and contrasting Eckels from Ray Bradbury’s “ A Sound Of Thunder” and General Zaroff from Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”. Both of these characters have very different personalities even though they both love to hunt it was their life passion.But they got bored of what they love doing and they tried to force their hobby to be something it wasn’t. And because they both tried pushing it too far by hunting bigger, better, more dangerous game it came back to haunt them. And that is where my thesis statement comes in, both Eckels and Zaroff got tired of what they loved and they tried pushing it to the extreme and it came back to haunt them.

The despondent mood at the beginning of the story, mirrors the loss of innocence of the narrator because he had to face the responsibility and guilt of Doodle’s death.

The “Red Bird” took a big role in this story. By Doodle rushing outside to a strange noise in his front yard. Seeing a rare bird on the bleeding tree that was blown off course of the bleeding tree by the storm.Then as hitting the ground the bird died. The next day him and his brother were getting ready to do Doodle’s daily workout but then Doodle couldn’t do them due to his weakness. Then as the storm struck the narrator took of running as Doodle tried to catch up yelling, “Please don’t leave me behind”(6). Finally Doodle had fallen just like the bird did and

The “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst Is about Brother and Doodle are Siblings. Brother is disappointed by Doodle. This leads him to do many cruel things to Doodle. Over the course of the story, Brother changes a lot. James Hurst describes Brothers’s change in the story, from being overly prideful of himself and ashamed of Doodle, which leads him to do many cruel things, to realizing that his pride and shame lead to the death of Doodle.

As the old saying goes, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone,” could also be related to the short story ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ by James Hurst about a disabled child and his brother, the narrator. The narrator was incredibly selfish and too filled of pride to realize that his brother’s life was a series of close calls all due to his own selfish desires. Doodle, being severely disabled, was only alive because of the persistent love and cruelty from his brother. The narrator’s main goal was to change Doodle to act like the other kids, only so he wouldn’t get embarrassed that his brother couldn’t walk. This ended up being non-stop training sessions, leaving the narrator filled with overwhelming pride. Throughout the story the brother’s feelings towards Doodle evolved in a major way, from hate and disgust, to embarrassment, and finally to love.

The narrator is ashamed of Doodle. When Doodle is born he is born weak, and his family assumed he was going to die but he didn’t. The narrator’s mother tells him that Doodle was either going to die or be not all there. The narrator wants a brother that can adventure with him. He explains, “ It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering with a pillow”( ).

Shared Humanity in the story “Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst”, is shown through loss. The narrator had been trying to teach his younger brother Doodle, to walk so he wouldn’t have to carry him around anymore. During this very long process a very rare bird had landed in their yard because a storm had made the bird loose his way and the bird fell dead in the boy’s yard, because of the weather difference. This bird was called the Scarlet Ibis. Doodle wanted to barry the bird and so he did with much love and care as he did so. Later the boys had went out to practice doing other things so that Doodle would be able to do the same things as the other boys, while out doing this it started to rain so the boys went running back home and Doodle couldn’t

Millions of years ago, hunting was a way of life, a way of survival. When cavemen killed an animal, they used every single piece of the animal and made certain to let none go to waste. In present day, hunting is viewed as a game. Many people hunt for the enjoyment that the adrenaline rush gives them. In this day and age, people can no longer hunt Saber-Tooth tigers, wooly mammoths, or dinosaurs, but what if there was a way to make that possible? A Sound of Thunder is a futuristic story of hunting prehistoric creatures. They could use a time machine to go back in time and hunt any animal they could dream of. The animals are carefully chosen before the hunt. If someone leaves minute traces of himself, the whole universe changes its course. A

When the same person features in the literature of two different stories written by the same author, they often show differences between behavior and description.

Many different stories have many different characters in them. Most of these characters seem to have nothing in common, unless you think really hard. The boy from “The Skater and the Wolves” and the hunter from “A White Heron” are like this. The stories are very different and the characters seem to be, but if you look closely, they aren't that different. Even though the boy and the hunter seem to only have differences, they actually are very similar as well.