Scarlet Ibis Compare And Contrast

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst is a short story about a child born with a serious medical condition and he is not able to do the same things as other children. This boy tries to overcome his challenges. In the end, however, his older brother abandons him in a storm and he ends up dying. There are two main characters in this story: the narrator (the older brother) and the little brother (Doodle). These two siblings are quite fascinating as they are very different from each other but at the same time share some similarities.
The narrator was a perfectly healthy young boy. "I thought myself pretty smart at many things, like holding my breath, running jumping, or climbing the vines in Old Woman Swamp, and I wanted more than anything else someone to race to Horsehead Landing, someone to box with, and someone to perch within the top fork of the great …show more content…
No one thought he would survive except his Aunt Nicey who had delivered him. He learned to crawl at a very late age ("his third winter"). The narrator pushed him to learn to walk. He even asked him "do you want to be different from everybody else when you start school?" Doodle's reply was "does it make any difference?. Meaning that Doodle didn't really care whether or not he could do the same things as the other children. But it was the narrator who persuaded him to try. In the story, Doodle was very unique. He described as being "...nice crazy, like someone you meet in your dreams". Doodle looked up to his brother. Even though he was disabled, Doodle worked hard to get better. All so that he could please the narrator.
Doodle and the narrator aren't very alike but, they still share some similarities. They are brothers after all. They, of course, have the same parents, live in the same house, etc. But Doodle is like his brother in his tenacity. They don't differ from one another in their determination. They both persist and manage to prove themselves