Doodle

character, Brother reveals his blended side of being a human being. In the story Brother is distinguished as being ashamed, faithful, and prideful through his actions and his expression. In the story Brother is portrayed as being ashamed towards Doodle,…

irresponsibly with his younger brother, Doodle. The older brother is supposed to treat him with care but he doesn’t do that. Although the older brother is a child and probably doesn’t know better, he has been told a list of what not to do with his younger, disabled brother. The older brother forced doodle to walk and swim which was painful for doodle. The brother did all of this for his own pride. He was embarrassed to have a crippled brother. The older brother forced doodle to do stuff he…

Pride of Prejudice !!!!!!!!!!!!!With a view of Doodle altered by society, a copious amount of pride manifests within Brother, causing him to realize the error he made in his treatment of Doodle in John Hurst’s The Scarlet Ibis. Upon Doodle’s premature birth, Brother describes the standards of what he deems a proper brother, -I wanted more than anything else someone to race to Horsehead Landing, someone to box with,and someone to perch with in the top fork of the great pine behind the barn, where…

William Armstrong known as Doodle is born handicapped. He is expected to be deceased. His father even got him a little mahogany coffin but he lives. The author has plans to murder Doodle but abandons them as he realises that Doodle is intelligent. The story focuses on the author’s complicated feelings towards Doodle. Sometimes, he enjoys Doodle’s company. He brings Doodle to the most beautiful place he knows, Old Woman Swamp. Other times, he is cruel to Doodle. He shows Doodle the little…

narrator doesn’t have much pride in his brother, Doodle, when he was younger. But as he gets older that makes a turn. In the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”, I think that the narrator is guilty of Doodles death because it states in the story “I ran as fast as i could, leaving him far behind” (353). By reading this it makes me think that the Narrator is guilty of his brothers death. If he would not have left Doodle behind nothing would have happened to Doodle. The narrator should know that his…

view. The narrator is the older brother of Doodle and is referred to as “Brother”. Doodle is a weak and sickly child who wasn’t supposed to survive much longer after birth. Doodle’s illness brought such an inconvenience to Brother’s ego that his selfish personality was revealed. The major conflict Brother faces is egocentric, wanton and completely sightless to his actions, and due to that he loses one of the most important things in his life. When Doodle is born, like any older sibling Brother…

young boy is given the responsibility of taking care of his disabled brother, Doodle. While at first the brother thinks of Doodle as a burden, later, he takes pride in teaching his brother to walk and swim. The older brother’s pride pushes Doodle too hard, leading to the tragic event of Doodle’s death. Doodle’s life and last days were painful because his brother’s pride blinded him, so he treated Doodle cruelly, yet Doodle tolerated this because his brother was the only one who had ever believed…

Ibis-Defense Brother is innocent. He did not kill Doodle. Doodle passed while he was running, after pushing himself very hard. Brother did encourage him to push hard. Although, Brother was only a boy. He could not have fully comprehended the severity of Doodle’s medical condition. Brother was young, I’m sure he was aware of Doodle’s constant fevers and trouble sleeping, but how could he know what that meant? Brother was expected to be responsible for Doodle, and take care of him very…

family member), you might not always act loving. In James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis", Brother is both hurtful and caring towards Doodle, demonstrating the complex and paradoxical nature of love. There isn't much argument that Brother was not hurtful towards Doodle; Brother did many terrible things to him. This quote gives us an example of how cruel Brother is to Doodle: "One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all had believed he would die."…

narrator had horribly negative thoughts about Doodle because of the fact that he wasn't normal. Another example is that Doodle's brother periodically grew a large amount of anger towards Doodle because he usually struggled doing simple things or being normal. Doodles brother, the narrator, ran from Doodle when Doodle was struggling to make it through the violent storm while trying to keep up. The narrator had horribly negative thoughts about Doodle because of the fact that he wasn't normal. “I…