The Scarlet Ibis Short Story Analysis

In the story The Scarlet Ibis, Brother tried to teach Doodle to walk in order not to make him embarrassed.He finally succeeded. Later, he wanted more and asked doodle to learn to swim, to run and to do everything that normal kids could do. So it comes to the question: is it is the brother’s fault that caused the sad ending and do the motives matter in the end though you are doing something good?It looks conflicting in the story. Brother taught Doodle to walk with selfish motivation, but he succeeded and everyone was happy. Later, he tried to teach Doodle more with the motivation to make Doodle a normal kid .But he failed and Doodle died. The story did not give an exact answer .But it suggested that the motives do not matter so much to the result as we always regarded. There are good motivations driving us to do good things. However, the motivation from desire and interests are from human nature and are always strong. It is a respectful but
Whether the motivation is good or bad is mostly depends on the expectation of the result. Everyone would do things mostly for himself, but the difference is on if he could also consider the influence on others. In the story, the brother cared more about benefits to himself than to Doodle. That might not cause some great differences, but it would influence the attitude while dealing with the issue. While teaching Doodle to walk, it did not show any obvious effect. But during Doodle’s training for the second time, Doodle died by accident which was resulted to his pushing too hard. Why he add so much pressure on Doodle, and why he was careless of Doodle’s feeling? It might be attributed to his motivation. He cared more about benefits to himself than to Doodle. So we can see that different motivation can cause a different attitude, which will cause different behavior and eventually influence the ending. In the last part of the story, the brother ran alone and left Doodle behind .It might be harmful to