Every being on this planet consists of many "streams" of love and "knots" of hate. The aspect that makes us unique is how we express those feelings toward our society. We can show affection to someone but, at the same time show disgust to that same individual. We are never sure why we do this. Moreover, we sometimes ask inquire to ourselves to determine the reasoning for our cruelty. In "The Scarlet Ibis," hate and love is illustrated throughout infinite aspects of imagery. The author shows, through diction how Doodle and his brother have the same predicament through love and hate.
             Doodle and the narrator had grew closer through a disability that Doodle obtained, but this togetherness brought a series of emotions. A strong example of the narrator's hatred is in the quotation, "It was the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree." I feel that this quotation explains Doodle's brother very elaborately. Doodle's brother is a person of changes, or as the quotation explains it, he is a person of "seasons." Therefore, his emotions too are oddly changing. His love for Doodle, according to the quotation is the season of summer. His feeling for Doodle was at sometimes very strong and I sometimes could see an image of Doodle's face illuminate with happiness when summer was within his brother. Nevertheless, he also showed hatred
             toward his brother, in turn forming autumn and killing his summer by replacing devotion with scorn.
             Hurst also uses his creativity to create imagery when he states, "Even death not mar it's grace, for it lay in the earth like a broken vase of red flowers, and we stood around it awed by it's beauty." When comparing the tow characters to this quotation I feel that the author explains that hatred, or death is sometimes hidden so h
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