Doodle

In "Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst, Brother was able to inspire Doodle to walk. Although he may not have done it for the right reasons, he could have ignored Doodle his whole life. In fact, Brother only prompted Doodle to walk because he wanted to have a healthy brother. He was ashamed of Doodle's disabilities. Brother displays many signs of being a good leader as shown by his success in getting Doodle to walk. Although Brother was motivated for all the wrong reasons, he still exhibited most of…

help his brother, Doodle, in many ways. When pride came along, it gets in the way, and Brother accidently hurts his brother: the consequences are tragic. Although his past actions may seem otherwise, Brother is innocent His pride proved he loved his brother, as well as all the help he gave Doodle along the way.…

interact with him like any other normal kid. However, his younger brother, Doodle, is born with a physical disability where he can’t move independently. In the beginning where the author and Doodle are at the barn loft near the baby coffin, the narrator states, “‘And before I’ll help you down from the loft, you’re going to touch it’… ‘Then I’ll leave you here by yourself,’ I threatened” (6). The narrator knows that Doodle is fragile and can’t do anything from his severe conditions yet still…

Doodle is 28 years old now. He is an Olympic runner and has won 8 Olympic medals so far in his career we live together because he still needs me everyday. Doodle has a treadmill that I customized for him because he wanted to persue himself in a career that no one would espect a “born crippled boy” to progress in for a career. “Brother, come here.”said Doodle. What is it this time?, I asked. “The elevator is not working.” said Doodle. Tomorrow you have an Olympic race that is 300 miles over the…

Doodle’s death. The first reason why I believe he is responsible for Doodle’s death is because he didn’t follow the list of don'ts that came with doodle. Some evidence I have to support my claim is “But when I left the house I ignored them”. The reason why I believe this quote is significant is because it’s talking about how when he left the house with Doodle he ignored the list of don’ts that came with him. Another piece of…

is pride. Doodle’s brother feels ashamed because Doodle is unable to walk, which, in a sense, makes him the crippled one because he he shows that he can not ‘stand up’ to the pressures of society. The motivation behind doodles brother teaching him to walk, is his pride, which is clearly illustrated when Hurst wrote, “They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a…

Tilak Misner Vuong Period 5 9/26/14 Scarlet Ibis Rough Draft In his short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” James Hurst shows that an overdose of pride can blind us from the way we should treat the ones we love the most. In the beginning of the story, Doodle is born with a disability, much to the disappointment of his brother. Doodle’s brother is so upset and aggravated by this, to the point where he thinks, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there…

Memory can be twisted based on grief and guilt. A good example of this is in “The Scarlet Ibis”, by James Hurst. The story is written as a memory of the protagonist’s brother Doodle. The events that play out make it really easy to blame Brother for Doodle’s death, and make it harder to analyze him because we only know him in relation to the memories and events he is recalling. He points out all he things he did wrong, this makes it where the readers will most likely leave the story with a…

Each of the two has a different motivation to solve their related obstacle. “The Scarlet Ibis” displays through its plot the following themes: a determination to prove ones abilities, consequences of selfish pride, and the act of brotherly love. Doodle, a young disabled boy is heavily influenced by his older brother’s opinions despite his brother’s occasional cruelty. Doodle’s disabilities refrain him from running, walking, and being the playmate that Doodle’s brother has always hoped for. “I…

never really liked Doodle. He always thought Doodle was a disappointment. I believe that the narrator was guilty because he didn’t like Doodle. He always seemed like he was kind of mad at him. One reason I say this is because it states that “So I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (345). That doesn't sound like brotherly love to me. This clearly shows that he hated Doodle because he wanted to kill his own brother. It also states that “When Doodle was 5 years…