The Scarlet Ibis Doodle Character Analysis

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More than 15% of the world is disable and 7 out of 10 people with disabilities say they’ve been abused in some kind of way. “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is about a boy and his disabled brother,Doodle, as he try everything to try and make him normal. Doodle was born a disappointment with a big head head and a small, red, and shivered body. Doodle meets his end, the same day he buried the scarlet ibis, after having been pushed too hard. Doodle’s brother’s reaction to his arrival is both shocked and unhappy. The brother interacts with doodle in a hateful and unloving way, but as time goes on he becomes more caring and Brotherly. The Narrator’s reaction to doodle’s arrival is that of shock and unhappiness. An example of this is when the

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