grateful and now Doodle is gone. The narrator regrets his decision. Doodle wasn’t like most boys. The narrator expected more of him. Eventually Doodle was pushed to hard and withered away. The scar of ibis‚ Doodle‚ the narrator‚ and the old woman’s swamp. The author is James Hurst. The brother caused Doodle early death by encouraging him to run and get to hot and also causing his heart rate to go high also‚ he was cold because of the rain from the storm. The brother caused Doodle early death by encouraging
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and bad thing because he can get to confident and push Doodle too far but it can be a good thing because he is determined to get Doodle to walk‚swim and run. Having too much pride can cause you to overlook actions and only see the result of what you are doing. In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” brother gets to much pride from teaching Doodle to walk so he creates a program to teach Doodle to swim‚run‚ climb trees and to fight. He worked Doodle till he turned purple.“And I prepared a terrific development
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your limit? In this short story “The Scarlet Ibis.” Doodle is a character who is pushed beyond his limit by an unappreciative/selfish older brother. The three things I’ll summarize in this story are: Doodle being pushed too hard‚ the eldest brother secretly wanting to kill Doodle‚ and Lastly‚ How the brother tried to put Doodle in a special development program. Doodle was pushed too hard by; his older brother would continue to say to him‚ “Doodle‚ do you want to learn to walk?”(page182) My opinion
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brother‚ Doodle. The story depicts the South in the 1900’s‚ when babies with birth defects rarely survived due to a lack of advanced medical equipment. “The Scarlet Ibis” chronicles the bond of miracle baby‚ Doodle‚ and his older brother until his tragic death. The narrator‚ or brother‚ causes Doodle’s death by pushing him beyond his physical restrictions ‚ putting pride before family‚ and abandoning Doodle in a life-threatening situation. The way his brother continuously trained Doodle resulted
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not to blame for Doodles death. When Doodle is first born he can’t do much‚ affecting Brothers mood and feelings. Brother feels sympathy for his baby brother. Growing up on a farm‚ Brother suggests how to help Doodle in this quote. “It was bad enough having an invalid brother‚ but having one who was not all there was unbearable‚ so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” If Doodle would have been born a normal child‚ Brother wouldn’t’ve wanted Doodles demise. Brothers
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thinks back to him and Doodle walking home from Old Woman’s Swamp‚ he confessed‚ “The faster I walked the faster he walked‚ so I began to run” (Hurst 394). Brothers walking pace displays how he walked faster‚ just to make Doodle walk faster. Since Brother did this he pushed Doodle too far‚ putting his life in danger. Brother teaches Doodle how to swim and row‚ he made Doodle “swim until he turned blue and row until he couldn’t lift an oar” (Hurst 391). Brother wants Doodle to learn faster‚ so he
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there is his little brother Doodle. In the story Doodle is supposed to be a special sign because he was born in a caul. He got his name because instead of crawling forward when he was a baby he would turn around and back up. Doodle’s worst fear was for his brother to leave him. Later they would go to the swamp and the older brother would pick Doodle up and “make” him stand. At the end of the story they find a scarlet ibis in a tree and it falls down and dies‚ then Doodle buries it. After they go to
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horrible things for his younger brother Doodle. Doodle was different. He was born with a caul‚ his head was big‚ his body was red and shriveled‚ he was supposed to die at a young age‚ and he couldn’t walk. All the narrator wanted was a normal brother‚ obviously he didn’t get what he wanted. In the story the narrator does a lot of cruel things to doodle. He makes doodle do things he doesn’t want to do. Sometimes just cause he was annoying or he wanted to scare him. “Doodle studied the mahogany box for a long
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motifs‚ and foreshadowing. Doodle‚ the young boy was born in a cual and wasn’t thought to survive he looked very strange when he was born‚ “ He seemed all head with a tiny body‚ which was red and shriveled like an old man’s” The mention of red is throughout the story leading up to the appearance of the ibis‚ as the story continues on we see more possibilities of how Doodle is going to meet his end. Red and death are brought up in contrast to happy memories of Doodle‚ almost representing the ibis
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had not yet been born when the ibis came to the bleeding tree. It’s strange that all this is so clear to me‚ now that time has had its way. But sometimes (like right now) I sit in the cool green parlor‚ and I remember Doodle. Doodle was about the craziest brother a boy ever had. Doodle was born when I was seven and was‚ from the start‚ a disappointment. He seemed all head‚ with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man’s. Everybody thought he was going to die. Daddy had the carpenter
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