Analysis Of The Short Story 'The Scarlet Ibis'

The older brother of Doodle was ashamed of Doodle ever since he was born he actually made plans to kill Doodle when he was a baby. He was rough with Doodle on purpose so Doodle wouldn’t want to go with him. He didn’t do anything for Doodle out of love he did it so he wouldn’t have a crippled brother.

When Doodle is first born and after about three years he is being taught how to walk like normal people walk and his brother is not to thrilled about it he is just doing it because he does not want to drag him around and be dead weight so he does this so he does not have to deal with him as much.

He has a brother that treats him horribly, because he is ashamed of Doodle’s physical state. Brother bullies him physically and mentally throughout the story. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, Brother is delineated as heartless, assiduous, and barbaric.

The allegory ‘The Scarlet Ibis’ by Hurst, James is about a kid name doodle and his older brother . Doodle isn't normal like regular people he is crippled. His older brother wanted to kill him, but he decided to teach him everything to try to be a normal person like him. First, you should know that his older brother isn’t that nice at first, but he starts to care for doodle. He starts being nice to him when he starts to teach him everything so he can be a normal kid for a 5 year old. Doodle was doing well after a week or so, but he barely could of stand for seconds, but remember he never use to walk. A storm was happening after a while they saw it coming there were running through the forest and Doodle couldn’t run after a while cause remember

He happens to be jealous of the attention Doodle gets and remains embarrassed by Doodle's difference and also annoyed at the fact that he had to take Doodle everywhere with him. Barely tolerating the fact that Doodle was different from everyone else and strived to teach him "normal" things but not for Doodle's own good. "So I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow", Brother says (417). This arises the source of deep shame for Brother. This shows Doodle's extreme vulnerability, while showing just how disturbed Brother is by the idea of Doodle's difference.

In the Scarlet Ibis, Brother didn’t love Doodle and never treated him correctly. On page, 345, it says, “He was a burden in so many ways.” When a person says that, it normally means they don’t like that person, much less love them. It would seem as Brother didn’t love Doodle, and never wanted him around. From the passage on page 345, it also has Brother dreaming about killing sweet little Doodle. It states, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to kill by smothering him with a pillow.” That part of the story shows us big time that Brother does not love Doodle, and he could care less if Doodle died. Not only does Brother not love Doodle, he was a little embarrassed of having Doodle as a brother.

Brother in “The Scarlet Ibis” is very selfish, especially to his younger brother Doodle. All Brother wanted was a brother that was normal, but Doodle was different. People can have greed such as Brother. In the first place, Brother pushed Doodle, his sibling with special needs, further than what he was capable of. Doodle died from his brother pushing him too hard. In the story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, the theme applied is people who obtain greed only think of their own needs and is revealed through symbolism and foreshadowing throughout the short story.

Brother was definitely cruel and egotistical for leaving his own helpless younger sibling in the dust. Brother caused lots of harm towards Doodle throughout the story. He made Doodle become quite emotional when his own brother left him alone and overall got his feelings hurt badly by Brother. All in all, Brother hurt Doodle’s feelings deeply while trying to teach him many things such as rowing a boat and, most importantly, walking. He created a permanent burden on both Doodle’s heart and

The reason behind this is Doodle looked up to his brother. This meant anything his brother said, did, or felt he went along with. Doodle was very empathetic and impressionable which is shown through conflict and characterization

In the tragic story “The Scarlet Ibis”, two young boys growing up during the great depression are met with challenges., especially that one of the boys (doodle) can’t walk. Due too Doodles disabilities his older brother becomes embarrassed,and selfish.

He wanted Doodle to be like him, to be able to run, play, and walk around. So with much pride, Brother forced Doodle to walk. Not for Doodle, but for his own selfish reasons . After seeing Doodle walk, he was completely filled with pride, so then he put Doodle through torture to get him to run. Brother felt like he had all power over Doodle, and that fed extremely his pride. Doodle put up with this because he was afraid of being left alone. So when Brother threatened to leave him, Doodle freaked out. “I heard Doodle, who had fallen behind, cry out, ‘Brother, Brother, don't leave me, don't leave me’” (Hurst 8). Having power over Doodle, made Brother forget that Doodle was human too and not some toy he could play with. This lack of compassion made Brother leave Doodle alone, and that lead to his death. In this way the narrator is an example to the readers, showing that having too much pride and not regular morals can end in someone being

Brother didn’t want to kill Doodle is happened in a freak accident and he was just trying to make the best of what Doodle had. In the beginning of the story Brother and Doodle go to the casket, that was made for him at a young age because no one thought he was going to live very long. When the approached the casket Brother made Doodle touch the casket. “His hand, trembling,reached out, and when it touched the casket he screamed.” (H.13) In the context of the rest of the story this single act gave Doodle confidence that he had already exceeded the limits

In the reading “The Scarlet Ibis” written by James Hurst A little boy at about the age of five was born with a few health defects which didn’t allow him to be as able as his older brother. Determined to extinguish these disabilities the two young boys set out to learn to do things that everybody was able to do such as walk. One day a storm came and the two were running home; the older one fearful of the storm didn’t wait for the his little counterpart only to realize what he had done turned around to reveal the death of the young child.

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, a young boy lives with his crippled brother, Doodle, and tries to teach him basic physical activities so he can live life. The boy pushes Doodle too far, ultimately killing him. The Brother’s relationship with Doodle was made up of pride for himself as well as compassion in helping Doodle, Though he had altruistic motives for helping Doodle, these were a veil to cover his truly selfish gain. This creates a paradox in his love for his brother Doodle. Brother’s actions could be taken both ways as a selfish love for his brother or a charitable love.

“Don’t hurt me, brother”(Hurst 433). “The Scarlet Ibis”by James Hurst is about an invalid child named Doodle who when he was born everyone thought that he wouldn't live, yet he did. Doctors told him and his family that he would never be able to walk his brother didn't like this. One day his brother had the thought to strangle doodle with a pillow, but right as he was about to do it doodle moved and showed signs of being able to move and be okay. Brother did not want to have a brother who could not walk, so he set out to teach doodle to walk. Doodle learned to walk, but brother kept pushing him and pushing him. Some may claim brother is innocent, but brother is guilty.He is guilty because he kept on pushing doodle even when doodle was on the ground crying because he was in so much pain. Brother did it for his own selfish reasons and not just because he wanted to see doodle walk.