1. How to find theme…

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How to find a theme For the birds -

4. Introduction Hook: A sentence related to the topic of your theme.
Background Information: The summary of your story. Include the author and title.
Thesis: The theme of this story is _____ because (3 reasons).
Hook: Pride can be dangerous thing.
Background Information: The short-story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is about the relationship of two brothers: Brother and Doodle. Brother is ashamed and embarrassed to have a brother who is handicapped. He pushes his brother to the limit until one rainy evening his brother has a heart attack and dies.
Thesis: The theme of this story is pride can be harmful when pushing others when it is beyond their limits because Brother is mad that his brother is handicapped, pushes his brother to walk, and leaves his brother behind while in a storm.

5. Why Doodle? Why?
Pride can be dangerous thing. The short-story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is about the relationship of two brothers: Brother and Doodle. Brother is ashamed and embarrassed to have a brother who is handicapped. He pushes his brother to the limit until one rainy evening his brother has a hear attack and dies. The theme of this story is pride can be harmful when pushing others when it is beyond their limits because Brother is mad that his brother is handicapped, pushes his brother to walk, and leaves his brother behind while in a storm.

6. Body Paragraphs Topic Sentence
One reason that the theme of this story is pride can be harmful when pushing others beyond their limits because Brother is mad that Doodle is handicapped.
Example
To begin with, when Doodle was born, there was a chance he would not live and Brother felt that Doodle was already a disappointment.
SAY
The character felt, “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 him with a pillow” (Hurst 385).
MEAN
This shows that Brother feelings towards his brother are very deadly because he wanted a brother who was not handicapped.
MATTER
This is evidence of the theme because Brother wanted a brother to play with and sadly he could not do this with Doodle which causes him to be angry towards him.

7. Body #1
One reason that the theme of this story is pride can be harmful when pushing others beyond their limits because Brother is mad that Doodle is handicapped. To begin with, when Doodle was born, there was a chance he would not live and Brother felt that Doodle was already a disappointment. The character felt, “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 him with a pillow” (Hurst 385). This shows that Brother feelings towards his brother are very deadly because he wanted a brother who was not handicapped. This is evidence of the theme because Brother wanted a brother to play with and sadly he could not do this with Doodle which causes him to be angry towards him.

8. Conclusion
The theme of this short-story is pride can be harmful when pushing others beyond their limits. One reason this is theme is because Brother is mad that Doodle was born. A second reason why this is the theme because he pushes his brother to walk. A final reason why this is the theme is because instead of helping doodle in the storm he leaves him behind, and doodle dies. In conclusion, brother allowed his pride to get in the way of appreciating Doodle for he was.