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• How does the author develop the theme of the short story?

 In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst he starts to develop the theme by explaining to us what was wrong with the main character Doodle when he was born and also by explaining his family's worries for him when he was born. The author precedes to tell in detail about how Doodles parents were worried about him not being able to live. His parents were so sure he’d die because of what the doctors said that they even had a small child sized coffin made for him. Then the story takes a turn when Doodle’s older brother gets frustrated that his brother can not walk so he takes it upon himself to teach him how to walk even tho Doodle was hesitant to the idea he became comfortable with it and soon wanted to know and worked hard with his older brother to accomplish walking even just for small periods of time. Soon the author tells us how the brothers finally accomplish and show the family doodle walking. This makeing the theme start to grow into a more hopeful and inspirational background. Even though the author shares with us doodles accomplishments on walking and such throughout the story later on he shares with us the tragic ending of how doodle and his brother were working on doodles abilities to do other things like swim and row a boat so when he went to school he could do things with the other children. This event made the author's theme change around once again. Through this story the author helps create a amazing theme little by little with sharing accomplishments and sharing sad moments of lost much like most people's lives today.