Doodle's Struggle In 'The Scarlet Ibis'

Have you ever seen a disabled boy learn to walk, run or swim? In the story,” The Scarlet Ibis” the boy named Doodle wasn't expected to live past birth. He was born with a really thin membrane and he also couldn't walk. But, by staying strong and with the help of his brother taught him how to walk and do other little kid things but with a price. Doodle stayed strong throughout the beginning, middle, and end of the story, but also the theme, “Never give up trying.” In the beginning Doodle wasn't expected to live and everyone thought he was going to die. Throughout the beginning of the story Doodle was strong by surviving death and by learning how to walk. When doodle was born everyone thought he was going to die except Aunt Nicey and
here's why,” Everyone thought he was going to die everybody except Aunt Nicey, who delivered him. She said he would live because he was born in a caul and cauls were made from Jesus's nightgown. Daddy and Mr. Health the carpenter built a little mahogany coffin for him. But he didn't die.”(Hurst 21).That's why doodle was strong throughout the beginning of the story. In the middle of the story doodle was strong because his brother made him touch his casket. Doodle was afraid to even though he had to or his brother would leave him. He had to be strong and show his brother, he could overcome everything. This statement shows that Doodle was strong because the statement states,” One day I took him up to the barn loft and show them his casket, telling him now we all had believed he would die it was covered with a film of Paris green sprinkled to kill rats and screech owls had built a nest inside it”(Hurst 103). This quote shows that Doodle could do anything to overcome his fears to be strong so he touched his casket to show that he was strong through the middle of the story. In the end of the story Doodle had came a long way by learning how to walk, run, and swim.
Doodle and his brother worked really hard over the summer to achieve his goal, but they knew they fell short of their goal. In the text it states,” Doodle was both tired and frightened and when he stepped from the skiff he collapsed onto the mud, sending a armada of folder crabs wrestling off into the Marsh Grass. I helped him up and as he wiped the mud off of his trousers he smiled at me ashamed . He had failed and we both knew it, so we started back home racing the storm”(Hurst 360). After all of Doodles hard work and learning how to walk, swim, and run, they failed because he didn't reach his goal. Doodle work so hard, but he didn't reach his goal in time by the end of summer. This is why at the end of the story Doodle was strong and worked his hardest to try to achieve his goal. The theme of the story is,” Never give up trying.” Doodle did this throughout the story he kept trying even though he failed sometimes and when he succeeded. When doodle was learning how to walk, he never gave up and when his brother would push him even harder and threaten him and leave him he still never gave up. By never giving up Doodle was able to stay strong and succeed. Doodle was able to walk, run, and swim even though he wasn't able to walk at first but, what happened to Doodle in the
end?