The Scarlet Ibis-Analyze 3 themes. Discuss. In the short story The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, has various themes. A theme is a subject, topic or ideas that happen throughout a short story, essay, or a composition. The three themes in The Scarlet Ibis are Doodle never gives up, his older brother loves him and unforeseen things happen. One theme is that Doodle never gave up on the challenges of life. When he was born everybody …showed first 75 words of 423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 423 total…wrong. Doodle learned to talk, crawl and walk. Basically everything that Doodle did was very unexpected. Themes in the short story help the reader to understand Doodle and his older brother. The themes are very important to the story because they show Doodle to be strong even though everybody thought he was weak. They also showed how his brother loved Doodle by teaching him many things and being more patient with him than his parents.