Similarities Between The Scarlet Ibis And The Gift Of The Magi

Doodle’s brother was determinded to get Doodle to do the same physical things as the other boys by the start of schools, so he worked Doodle extremely hard. The boys would go to Horsehead Landing so Doodle could practice his swimming and learn how to row a boat, on hot days. On cool days, the boys went to Old Women Swamp to climb rope vines or practice walking. One afternoon, brother made Doodle swim until he turned blue, and row until he couldn’t lift an oar. Whenever the boys went, brother would walk purposely fast so Doodle would be forced to keep up which always turned his face to a red tint and his eyes would turn a gaze.

¨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.

I. There happen to be different settings in both of the short stories but both of the settings adapt well with their plots.

In the story we will see how the narrator teaches Doodle to walk. However that is not enough for the narrator, he wants to teach Doodle how to be a normal boy and to do normal boy things. He wants to teach him how to run, swim, and row a boat like all the other boys. Therefor the brother sets his goals for their summer to teach Doodle how to do all the things of the normal boy image that is in his brain. However once he finds out that his plans are going to go up in flames a raging storm begins to stir in his soul, and full war breaks out. This war between the brothers seems harmless at first, but the brothers war ends in a bloody battle, to bad for Doodle, his bad luck strikes. In the Scarlet Ibis many symbols are shown,like the Ibis, the storm, and the bolt of lightning during the storm at the end of the

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;

Every big sibling has scared or teased a younger sibling before, however, scaring them even when they are told to be careful of not putting your younger brother under too much stress or he will die, is very risky. When the narrator makes Doodle touch his casket even when he doesn’t want to, the narrator threatens to leave him up there. Doodle was frightened of being left so he touched it. Once he touched it he screamed and was paralyzed. Once the narrator picked him up and climbed out, Doodle was crying and said, “Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me.” (49) With this in mind in the end of the book he had

Doodle's initial conflict with his brother leads his brother to patronize him for being different. Brother and his whole family believe that Doodle wasn't going to survive

Doodle is incapable of being as active as the narrator. “Everybody thought he was going to die- everybody except Aunt Nicey, who had delivered him.”(-pg. 1) Doodle was born with health condition that make him weaker and incapable of extreme activity. The narrator continued to push him beyond what he could do. “When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to move himself, straining terribly.”-(pg.2) Doodle couldn't run because if he fell, he wouldn't be able to get up and he would begin straining terribly, but this didn't stop the narrator from forcing him to run and do everything he wanted him to do. “Crawling backward made him look like a doodlebug, so I began to call him Doodle, and in time even Mama and Daddy thought it was a better

Ms. Grimesey Ivanov, Ivan Ostrander 203 Section 9/2 10/16/2014 Compare the change of Alfred’s and “Brother’s” behavior from “The Scarlet Ibis” and “All the Years of her Life” from the beginning to the end of these stories? The change of the behavior of “Brother” and Alfred is similar in both stories. The behavior changes from egoistic, the person thinks only about himself, to nonegoistic, the person thinks about the others and himself. At the beginning, “Brother” thinks only about himself and is ashamed of Doodle.

of the story when “Brother” is teaching Doodle how to swim, after doodle has given up “Brother”

His newfound perspective is his understanding that Doodle will always be his brother, so he must change him. To do so, he creates a development program which will prepare Doodle to go to school and be like his classmates. However not for Doodle’s self-assurance, but for the narrator, to escape being labeled a brother of a disabled. “‘Aw come on, Doodle,’ I urged. ‘You can do it.

Have you ever thought about what a storm or a tree can represent in your life? The character ‘Doodle’ in the story ‘The scarlet Ibis’ by James Hurst was represented by many symbols like a storm or a tree throughout the story. One of the main comparisons during the story was the Scarlet Ibis. The scarlet ibis and Doodle were very much alike and there were many symbols in the story that shows this like the storm, the tree and the color red which symbolizes many feelings.

Doodle is being threatened by his brother and his brother is the bad person in this

 So far the stories have seemed similar in theme, if and even in execution. However, the one defining event in each story is what serves as the marker that separates Francis from Paco; one who actually lives from one who doesn’t even get the chance too.

as a means of evolving the story but also places it at the centre of