The Scarlet Ibis (Classic Short Stories)

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Summary: Life's lessons
Review: I read this book when i was in the 2nd grade at Kirwan Elementary School on St. Thomas Virgin Islands. It was the first story that i read that mademe cry. Why? Cause i could relate to it. Iw as like Doodle brother. Very proud and never wanted anything to make me feel inferior. My brother were not handicappeed but they were younger than i am and I felt that i was better than they were and that they couldn't be around me cause they werent able to "keep up". After i read that book i changed my whole perspective. Imagine. i couldn't be no more than 7 or 8 years old but I understood I needed to be different towards those that I love before it was too late to do that. Doodle's older brother realizes this too late. He realized too late that it is more important to love his brother no matter what others thought about him. I think that this is a good book for all youngsters to read. It will develope that sense of what is wrong and right in them.

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Summary: Life's lessons
Review: I read this book when i was in the 2nd grade at Kirwan Elementary School on St. Thomas Virgin Islands. It was the first story that i read that mademe cry. Why? Cause i could relate to it. Iw as like Doodle brother. Very proud and never wanted anything to make me feel inferior. My brother were not handicappeed but they were younger than i am and I felt that i was better than they were and that they couldn't be around me cause they werent able to "keep up". After i read that book i changed my whole perspective. Imagine. i couldn't be no more than 7 or 8 years old but I understood I needed to be different towards those that I love before it was too late to do that. Doodle's older brother realizes this too late. He realized too late that it is more important to love his brother no matter what others thought about him. I think that this is a good book for all youngsters to read. It will develope that sense of what is wrong and right in them.

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Summary: I have searched 25 years for this book.
Review: I read this short story approximately 25 years ago and have searched for it from time to time. I felt a strong emotional attachment to The Scarlet Ibis, in part, since my youngest brother is mentally retarded. A literary monument to the human spirit.

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Summary: It left a strange feeling in me for 29 years
Review: I read this short story in my English class almost 30 years ago. I am the oldest of 8 younger brothers. I'm almost 50 now and I still think of that story when I look at each and every one of them. Four of my brothers have died, I need to read this story again.For the rest of them

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Summary: This Story Has Haunted Me For 25 Years
Review: I read this story in an issue of Scolastic Scope Magazine when I was in 8th grade in 1977. I remember at the time that I wanted to remember the name of the story because it had such an emotional effect on me. Over the years, I'd remembered the word "scarlet" from the title but forgot the name of the bird. I remember thinking about this story after I first read it and crying. Now I'm teaching in a High School and I ran across this story again in one of our literature textbooks. I'm going to order this book now so I can have it around and recomend it to people.

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Summary: Touching short story
Review: I read this story in my literature textbook my sophomore year in high school. I am very impressed by this story and how well it is written. It was so short and even made me cry at the end. I often try to find other short stories to read that are as good as this one but have yet to find one that is quite as much to my taste as is The Scarlet Ibis.

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Summary: A heart-warming story with a ending that sticks with you
Review: I reasd the scarlet ibis just two days ago. We had to read it for our 9th grade english class. Our teacher told us it was a sad story~ little did I know how sad...I usually don't cry or get teary eyed over lots of things, but this book really got me thinking. It made me realize how you sometimes hurt the ones you love the most. I recommend you read this book...it will stick with you for a long time and it is very hard to find good realisitc short stories. RIP Lacey & Mrs.Massey and David! What's up to everyone who knows me @ B.B.H.H.S ! I love you guys! Hey Mrs.Lynn and her 2 period English class!

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Summary: Where's Doodle?
Review: I remember reading this book as a sophomore in High School. There was this friend of mine that was kind a sickly and stuff. Anyhow, he reminded me of Doodle and I started calling him Doodle. I moved away in the middle of my sophomore year, but everyone else kept calling him Doodle too, even the teachers. I guess it wasn't really nice in retrospect since Doodle was handicapped and ended up dying. My friend didn't die like Doodle, but he did go to Texas A&M.

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Summary: A remembrance from childhood
Review: I remember reading this in grade school and still remember it today. I have searched for this title and you can imagine my surpise when I found it on this site listing. I had a younger brother, though not handicapped, who I greatly disliked. If I remember, this story has a part in it where the family was so certian that the young brother would not live that they built a coffin for him in his infancy. If I also remember this story correctly, the young boy does die in the end though the details of it I can't now recall. I remember being so stunned by this ending that I began to look on my younger brother as a treasure rather than a liability. You might say that this book changed our relationship. Treasures come in many forms one of them is brothers, even handicapped ones. If you don't want to cry, don't read this book. If you want to look at life a bit differently, buy it and don't put it down.

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Summary: After All These Years
Review: I taught this short story thirty years ago for the first time. It never failed to touch my students and me each and every year, and I taught it for almost 28 years. It is a masterpiece. However, I have never been able to find out anything about the author. If anyone knows of any other novels or short stories he wrote, I would love to hear from you [e-mail]