Comparing Pride In The Most Dangerous Game And The Scarlet Ibis
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Pride “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves” (Emily Bronte). Sometimes proud people become overwhelmed with their pride, and that can lead to bad things happening to them or those they love. “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Scarlet Ibis” portray the truth about pride. Sometimes when we have pride we do not think about how it affects others. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford feels that hunting is the best sport in the world. However, he does not care about how a jaguar feels; the animal being hunted. When Rainsford meets Zaroff he sees hunting in whole new light. “ ‘Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if need be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure’ ”(Connell 35). Zaroff feels that he should be allowed to hunt whatever and whoever. He feels that he is the strongest man, and those who are weak should not be allowed to exist. However, Rainsford believes what Zaroff is actually doing is murder. Zaroff decides to hunt Rainsford when Rainsford refuses to hunt with him. Consequently, Zaroff ends up dead,and…show more content… The narrator of “The Scarlet Ibis” wants a brother who can run, jump, play, climb, and swim. He teaches his brother, Doodle, to walk because he did not want a brother who would embarrass him by not knowing how to walk. Later on they start tackling bigger things, and he believes that he can do and accomplish anything. However, one day he pushes Doodle too far. “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love, rather than to lose that someone you love with you useless pride”(John Ruskin). One day, the narrator becomes so upset because Doodle had failed something that he leaves Doodle in the rain. While Doodle Is screaming for his brother to not leave him. Consequently, Doodle ends up