Doodle Compare And Contrast

¨At six years old, when his brother is born, the narrator tells the reader that from the first, Doodle was "a disappointment." When he learns that Doodle is possibly mentally and physically challenged, the narrator begins his plan to kill his brother; however, his plans are soon discarded after Doodle smiles at him¨. (James Hurst) The main conflict of "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst is Brother's inability to deal with Doodle's disabilities.

The narrator tries to help his brother Doodle, who has physical disabilities, become more like everyone else, so that the narrator would not feel ashamed of him. They practiced in the swamp everyday trying to shape Doodle

The narrator, Brother, tells the story of Doodle, his brother, and his childhood with all his disabilities; starting off by telling about Doodle when he was a baby and toddler, about how he could not do much for himself for a long time, but eventually learns to crawl. He soon moves onto when Doodle got a little older and Brother would have to take him everywhere he went and how the two would take on the mission of teaching Doodle to walk; they spent almost everyday out in the woods making Doodle stronger and stronger. On Doodle’s sixth birthday, they showed the family what he could do;

This causes the Narrator to be embarrassed of his brother and want to fix the issue by pushing him to learn to walk. This shows that he is being selfish because he's fixing an issue that may seem like he's benefiting Doodle, although this is true, he is really doing it for himself. Most people do not do, or try to do selfish things to people they know or love. This shows that the Narrator does not care or love Doodle and think he's annoying. At the end of the Story when Doodle dies, we see that the Narrator is very sad and want Doodle back. So he went from being selfish, using Doodle, and treating him badly to loving him and being mournful.This is clear change in the Narrator, further proving that he is a dynamic

At the beginning of the story, Brother is hateful. Doodle is born and Brother is extremely disappointed by his disabled brother. He always dreamed of having a brother he could run and play with, and

Doodle’s Brother’s selfishness causes him to be ashamed of Doodle’s disabilities. Doodle’s brother felt “embarrassed of having a crippled brother of that age who couldn’t walk so (he) set out to teach (Doodle). (132)” Doodle was born with a tiny body and a bigger head. Everyone believed he would die. Brother is embarrassed of Doodle because he is different than others. He wants Doodle to fit in society and does not accept Doodle for how he is. Brother is selfish because he was an only child, he never learned the correct way to share and accept others. Brother’s parents put a lot of pressure on him, so he

The story centers around a boy who has a younger brother named Doodle, who has a disability that requires high maintenance. Since Doodle follows him everywhere, the narrator can’t help but feel annoyed at times. However

Doodle was born with a small body and a huge head, not allowing him to be able to walk. Brother taught Doodle to walk to try and avoid embarrassment at school. “They did not know that I did it for myself, that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices, and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother (Hurst 3).” Ever since the age of 5 brother has been ashamed of doodle. He thought that by helping to teach doodle to walk he would not longer be burdened of the humility of having a brother with

In the passage, the Narrator was very brutal. The Narrator’s “bitter cruelty came back to {him} while {he} was running away from the storm leaving Doodle behind.” Also, Doodle has some conditions including a weak heart, disabilities, and he is paralyzed. Which, Narrator didn’t show compassion towards. The Narrator taught Doodle how to walk but in the worst way! He taught him how to walk because he was embarrassed that he had a brother that couldn’t walk at age five. In the passage the Narrator was embarrassed, “When Doodle was five years old, {he} was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn't walk, so {he} set out to teach him.” (Hurst 2) The narrator felt self-contious because of Doodle’s disability of

The narrator exemplifies his cruelty towards Doodle in multiple ways throughout the story. The first example of this behavior was when he threatened to leave his brother in their attic if he did not touch his casket.

The narrator always had strong opinions about Doodle. Ever since the day Doodle was born, the narrator’s pride was much too high for having him as a brother, saying, “he was born when I was six and was, from the outset, a disappointment.” Not even giving his brother a chance to grow up and prove himself. Since the narrator did not know how to handle having a

As Doodle learns how to walk his brother wants to teach him how to be more like the other six year old kids out of his embarrassment towards Doodle. That embarrassment lead to his own pride overcoming his intuition. The narrator’s distorted judgement causes him to want to teach Doodle to run, to swim, to climb trees and to fight when his disability barely allows him to walk. “‘ Wake up, Doodle. Wake up.’

Hurst displays this in the text when he writes, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (Hurst 2). Hurst shows the reader of the narrator’s, the older brother, uncompassionate side. The older brother is unable to be sympathetic to Doodle’s disability and is unable to perceive his brother as anything but a disappointment in the beginning stages of their relationship. These apathetic emotions towards Doodle are solely fueled by pride as the brother is too proud to be related to Doodle who was not as lucky as him and was born with a flawed body that was not as perfect as Doodle’s own mental capability. It was the concept of Doodle eventually becoming “normal” that stopped him from killing his brother.

He knows there are some things that will make him mad along the way but he still tries to not show it. Not everyone would want to help there brother or sister out knowing that they were born with a disability, but Narrator took on that challenge and you have to have courage to do it. Eventually, shortly before his sixth birthday, Doodle learns to walk with help from Brother. Encouraged by this, Brother decides to teach Doodle how to run, climb vines, swim, row and even fight to prepare Doodle for school. Almost a year Doodle had already accomplish so much by a nearing

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