“i did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” can someone explain this in their own words?

‘I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death’, this is a line from James Hurst’s story ‘The Scarlet Ibis.’ The story is about the narrator and his sick brother Doodle.

The narrator wanted to do something for Doodle and his unstable heath. But in wanting to do more and more, in putting forward his pride, narrator lost his brother forever.

The quote from the story means that pride is a big thing. If we do something right, but if our intentions are wrong then it can be dangerous.

Anything done for the wrong reasons will result in the end as we can see from the story. Pride can either make one successful or a failure.

a very short, simple sentence

Explanation:

It adds onto the emotion of the sentence, when it is short adding tension, while using a passive voice.

example:

He murdered them.