In literature there are characters that readers love and characters that are disliked but there is always a reason for the reader’s emotion towards the character. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst personifies his characters as if they are people that are interacted with daily. One of the characters that readers fall in love with is Doodle. He is cared about because of his characteristics that make him an important character which are, his possession of potential, virtuous and imperfectness, as well as his struggles in life. As a character Doodle is loved, for many reasons. His first characteristic is his possession of potential, for example when he was born he had no potential for living. “Everybody thought he was gonna die” After the fact,
