Scarlet Ibis Argumentative Essay

Brother deliberately killed Doodle because in the story it says, “He was ashamed of having an invalid brother.” Brother intentionally showed Doodle his casket because everyone knew he was going to die. Brother wanted to kill Doodle because they went up to the loft and Brother showed Doodle his casket and told

The Scarlet Ibis bird symbolizes Doodle; this symbolism can be seen by the authors description of both Doodle’s and the Scarlet Ibis’s appearance after death. After the Scarlet Ibis fell from the bleeding tree his

When the Brother was forcing Doodle to learn how to walk, Doodle was in pain and he didn’t want to learn to walk at all. “This time [Doodle] did not lift his face up out of the rubber grass. ‘ I just can’t do it. Let’s make honeysuckle wreath.’”(4) From this quote, Hurst shows that Doodle was giving up, Doodle’s body knew that it could not support Doodle to walk yet, he needed to practice for a long time. As a younger teenage boy, the narrator was not well educated and did not understand the capability of Doodle’s body and he often force Doodle to do things that he don’t want to do. “There is within [the Brother] a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle.”(3) At the time of the story, the Brother was childish and very irresponsible. Just like what he has said in the quotes above, the Brother was cruel to Doodle. He forced Doodle to touch a coffin and threatened Doodle that he would leave Doodle if he doesn't touch a coffin. The coffin was made originally for Doodle, since everyone thought Doodle was going to die very soon. Later in the training program, the narrator wanted Doodle to run, Doodle’s limited physical ability was overwhelmed, the Brother simply ditched Doodle in the heavy rain since he was mad at Doodle for not reaching the goal that they

“The Scarlet Ibis” is a short story written by James Hurst that is a short story about adolescent born with a medical condition who is ultimately dead due to his brother’s lack of ability to accept the positive features and alternately focus on the negative features of his brother, William Armstrong, who he later renamed Doodle as he perceived that the fact that his parents “named him Armstrong...was like tying a big tail on a small kite”( Hurst NP). There are numerous subjects in the story such as pride, brotherhood and selfishness that can demonstrate a theme that states that pride and selfishness can interfere with brotherhood by convincing us to commit cruel things to the ones we love. In the beginning of the story,

The family of Doodle knew that he would have a short life so they just kept Doodle in another room so they wouldn’t get attached to him. The older brother showed Doodle his casket and threatened to leave Doodle there which was harsh and unnecessary.

Brother takes Doodle to a beautiful place, the Old Woman Swamp. Brother would take Doodle there often with a go-cart and he would gather flowers to make necklaces and crowns, which is something lovely to do to. Taking Doodle there to share the beauty of the view forgetting what is wrong in life and what might happen to Doodle for a while is one of the nicest thing Brother did for Doodle.

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

I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind a wall of rain, dividing us" (604). Then he came back and found Doodle, covered in blood, dead. He was in shock as if he didn't know something like that could happen. He knew that his younger brother had 'problems' that he was born with, and his mother would remind him not to tire Doodle out. Brother had plenty of warnings and yet he still did things to make Doodle tired and he still left him in the storm.

Brother: Did He Ever Really Care? How do you feel about your siblings? Most people would say they love them and that they have a close connection with them, but it is quite the contrary for the main character of “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. Brother, the unnamed main character, is a self-centered, prideful person.

Doodle's Reason to Succeed Do you ever feel like an outsider? Well, that is how Brother portrays Doodle, a disabled boy in the story, "The Scarlet Ibis". Brother referred to him as this because he could not walk until he was about six or seven.

I would like to start by saying that Doodle’s brother could say some hurtful things to Doodle that may discourage him. For example, “One day I took Doodle up to the barn loft, and showed him his casket, telling him how we all believed he would die.” (2) It was a poor choice for his brother to make and it caused Doodle to get scared and worried about whether or not his life has all been a lie. He did not know that his family thought

The Scarlet Ibis Essay A few weeks ago, I binged watched a TV show called the Good Place. It mainly was about how this woman -- Eleanor Shellstrop -- got into the Good Place, through a misunderstanding. Which meant, she was mistaken for a saintly deceased woman, who had the same name as her. Even though the show is mostly comedic -- the show brushed the top of many topics, usually about morals. For example, in one episode where they try and get Eleanor to gain multiple good points to stay in the Good Place, they make her host a party, help her neighbors, and overall be a “good” person.

In James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis”, he explains how people should not be sheltered from the world, but instead be pushed past their boundaries to live life to the fullest. The story is about 2 boys who play and hangout in Old Woman Swamp. When the narrator and Doodle visit Old Woman Swamp for the first time, Doodle says “Its so pretty [...] so pretty, pretty, pretty.” (Hurst, pg 170). Doodle expanded his horizons when he visited the swamp and got to experience the world instead of being trapped inside the house.

Additionally, Brother demonstrates his inner malevolence towards Doodle in their barn loft, “show[ing] him his casket, telling him how [the whole family] had all believed that he was going to die…”(557). As if this was not torture enough, Brother goes a step further in his torment, demanding, “‘Before I’ll help you down from the loft, you’re going to have to touch it’” (557). In this situation, Doodle has done nothing wrong, nothing to hurt or offend Brother. However, Brother feels the need to frighten Doodle beyond imagination, pulling a scream from a child barely out of toddlerdom and rendering him frozen in fear.

When he reaches Doodle in the pouring rain, he is curled up and seems to have had a heart attack. This is the first time readers see Brother showing love, compassion, and care towards his brother. The narrator explains, “His little legs bent sharply at the knees, had never before seemed so fragile, so thin”(183). Not only emotionally, but Brother also begins to physically see the weakness of Doodle and what he has been doing to him this whole time. Until this moment, Brother’s eyes have never been opened to who Doodle really