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The Scarlet Ibis Argumentative Essay
The Scarlet Ibis, a great story with a disturbing ending. When James Hurst introduced the narrator, he seemed like a bad brother to Doodle, but there is a lot of good things that the narrator has done as a sibling, i'm going to tell you why he is a good brother.

I believe that the narrator is a good brother, even though he showed the coffin to Doodle. Showing something to scare someone isn't always a bad thing, my brother scares me a lot but, that doesn't make him a bad
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