Biases In The Scarlet Ibis And Marigolds

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Everyone's mind is original to itself in the way that every mind has a different form of thinking. They are oblivious to how they act, but to others they can see that they have a conflictive bias. These many forms of biases are seen from your average day life at work or school. They are especially seen in literature. In the stories, "The Scarlet Ibis" and "Marigolds" cognitive biases are placed through the story everywhere.

In the story The Scarlet Ibis, the narrator continues to teach his brother Doodle how to walk, swim, run, and climb even though they are on a tight deadline and the narrator knows he can't teach Doodle everything before they start school. Knowing this the narrator is guilty of using a sunk cost fallacy bias. It was after