Doodle

The characters in The Odyssey and “Scarlet Ibis” follow the same idea of having hubris and selfishness. The older brother and Odysseus differ by Brother wanting Doodle to fit in at school but Odysseus wants to stand out and be better than everybody else. To start off, Odysseus and Brother have the same characteristics. Both these characters have hubris and selfishness. For example, in The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus exclaims to the world after he kills Polyphemus, “’Cyclops- if any man on the…

recalling on his past memory of Doodle, his “invalid” younger sibling. The narrator longs for someone to run with, play with, and fight with; a brother to be proud of. However, the birth of a frail and severely disabled younger brother is a disappointment. When the narrator insists upon teaching Doodle how to walk, he slowly begins to feel proud of Doodle and his accomplishments. The narrator’s pride along…

narrator is guilty of Doodles death. The narrator is guilty because he was ashamed and didn’t act like he cared about doodle. Brother was disappointed and ashamed by his brother, Doodle. Before Doodle was even able to come out of the rom Brother was making plans to kill him.On page 345, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who was possibly not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him…”This quote shows that he had planned to kill Doodle since he was a…

which “made him look like a doodlebug.” The narrator nicknamed his brother Doodle from this observation. “Although Doodle learned to crawl he showed no signs of walking” the narrator’s dad built him a go-cart. It was the narrator’s job to lug Doodle around, “if I so much as picked up my cap, he’d start crying to go with me.” The storyteller got so tired of Doodle tagging along he decided to teach him how to walk.…

When Doodle said he could not walk, Brother replied, “Shut up. I’m not going to hurt you. I’m going to teach you to walk” (Hurst 346-347). Brother teaches Doodle to walk simply because he is embarrassed by his disabled brother. In fact Brother admits, “All of us must have something to be proud of” (347). Although Brothers reasons are selfish, Doodle is provided with a better life because of Brothers selfish actions. In addition, because Brother is so successful in teaching Doodle to walk,…

throughout the beginning, middle, and end of the story prove the theme that you should never give up hope. Brother shows determination at the beginning of the story because he is talking about how he has to lug Doodle around everywhere he goes and how it can be a burden, so he takes Doodle to the Old Woman Swamp…

disabled brother, Doodle. The narrator was a bad brother because he was selfish, cruel, and pushed Doodle too far to make him a “normal” kid. One way that I know the narrator of the story is in fact a bad brother is that, he was selfish and only cared about his benefit from it all. The narrator was selfish because, although he taught Doodle to walk. He did it because he was embarrassed of having a brother that couldn’t. To back this up is in the story the narrator said, “When doodle was Five…

nickname, “Doodle” because of the way he crawls. As Doodle grows, the narrator sees him as a burden and teaches him to do things such as walk, run, swim, and more. The narrator does this out of pride, not love. As time goes on and the narrator pushes him harder, Doodle starts to look sickly and weakened. One summer day, a scarlet ibis appears in the family’s yard, and almost…

should always be important to you, no matter his disabilities. In the story, Brother’s brother Doodle was disabled and Brother did not like that. There are many reasons why Brother would be considered not a “good brother” but one of the main reasons he is not a good brother is because he wishes he did not have Doodle as his brother, mostly because Doodle is disabled. Brother was not a good brother to Doodle because he wishes he didn’t have him as a brother. He wished this so much he even…

“...I heard Doodle, who had fallen behind, cry out,”Brother, Brother, don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!” That was the last thing the narrator heard from his brother Doodle. The story starts off with the narrator at the time of the first World War, living in North Carolina and has a little brother that is crippled. Everyone thought that the little brother, Doodle, would die. But he survived. The narrator taught Doodle to walk and was training him so he could go to school and be a normal kid. But…