Scarlet Ibis Compare Contrast Essay

In the story The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst we learn of 2 brothers, one of them is nicknamed Doodle since his original name wasn’t suitable. Doodle was born with an unknown disease that causes him to have low levels of exhaustion. On the other hand we have his brother, who is a young boy who only wished for a brother than could “running, jumping, or climbing vines” (Hurst 1). Since Doodle’s brother wasn’t going to let down his dream of having a brother who wasn’t disabled he set out to teach him. Doodle makes a lot of progress, however school is about to start and his brother isn’t pleased with the progress they have made, so they set out on the last day to train harder. When they begin training a large storm picks up and pelts let with large …show more content…
In the text “I’m going to teach you how to walk”(Hurst 3) we can extract that despite his brother being unable to do certain actions he still believes it is possible so he sets out to train him which shows that he never looks at the negative only the positive. Another example of his persistence to train is when his brother says “Aw, come on Doodle… You can do it.” which represents him as being a master and a father figure who will motivate him on every step. However, he does show a cruel side that was completely unintentional when “I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind”. Although he did it completely unintentionally he did it knowing his brother could keep up which can cause cardiac arrest, which does show that peer pressure made him cruel. However, before any training took place Doodles brother was a very kind person who did their best to entertain their brother “Doodle and I often went down into Old Woman Swamp”. But, this actions he takes was partially thought through since his mother forced him into taking Doodle. Entirely the main character shows his personality in both his actions and