Pride Speech

Many people may argue whether or not pride has a positive or negative impact on their peers. Although pride can be positive in some ways it can also be negative. It can turn us into something we’re not and can allow us to become too prideful. Once people get a taste of too much pride it keeps getting stronger and stronger until it eventually takes over them. I believe at one point we are all equally positive and negative with our pride, but as time passes we tend to lean towards one or another. Although all people have their own opinions on pride not all of them are precise or valid. Everyone can concur that pride has its high and low points, but what nobody knows is which one it is. Either high or low, everyone has their own personal response
They also feel that it is ok to become too prideful because it’s ok to take as much pride in what you have accomplished or achieved. However they have failed to see that a person becoming too prideful in themselves can also hurt themself or others around them or even the ones they love and care for dearly. They may also not realize that pride can go both ways, and that people can take pride in the wrong direction and use or manipulate it to make the wrong decisions. I believe that being too prideful can go as far as going behind your morals and values and killing your loved ones. Also it can blind you from the real you and cause you to do things even if you know that there the wrong decisions to make. In the short, “The Scarlet Ibis” the narrator quotes “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all the way there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (Hurst, 2). This quote is stating that its enough that Doodle was slow but if he he wasn’t there at all, then he didn’t mean anything and that he wasn’t part of the family. The narrator put himself in front of his disabled little brother Doodle, even when Doodle needed him at one of his toughest points his life. He was too conceited and worried what his peers and his friends would think if him if he had a disabled little brother. So he decided to take
Pride can be so strong and take a big enough toll on us to make us do unutterable and unspeakable things too the people we love and care for the most. It can cause do harmful or physical things to people we care about, such as hitting, over working, and even killing the people we know best. In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” the narrator recites “We decided to double our efforts, to make that last drive and reach our pot of gold. I made him swim until he turned blue and row until he couldn’t lift an oar. Wherever we went, I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up, his face turned red and his eyes became glazed” (Hurst, 11). Even though the narrator knew he was hurting or pushing Doodle too far he didn’t care he just kept on pushing until he proved his point. The narrator pushed Doodle so he could get stronger and could become more normal for when he would go to start school. Also the narrator tried to cram in all the stuff like rowing, swimming, or running because they were running out of time. They had set a goal to teach Doodle how to do all this stuff before school. Both became too busy and caught up in different stuff that they fell behind. Like Doodle kept getting sick and the narrator had to do stuff for himself at