Shared humanity takes place in this paragraph in the categories of morality and relationship. There was a child named Doodle. He was born with physical disabilities. The narrator, who was his brother, was planning to kill him because he was mad that he finally had a brother, but could not play with him. He decided he was going “to kill him by smothering him with a pillow”(Hurst). At the moment when the narrator was planning that Doodle smiled at him. He got excited and told his mom. So he decided not to kill him. “Mama, he smiled. He's all there! He’s all there!”(Hurst). The narrator believed it was “moral” for him to kill his brother because he had physical disabilities and couldn’t do things with him. The audience understands however that
