Doodle's Brother: A Literary Analysis

Just imagine if you were born with not being able you to do any physical activities. Doodle, also known as William Armstrong, was born just like this. The narrator, which is Doodle’s brother, is very proud of what Doodle has accomplished over the past three years of his rough life. There is a plan for the narrator and Doodle to make his life better, maybe even more than one plan. Doodle is a disappointment to the family, until he does physical activities with his brother. Life is unfair sometimes, but we have to climb over the obstacles and make ourselves stronger. In the story, the narrator states, “But all of us must have something or someone to be proud of, and Doodle had become mine. I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” This quote impacts the narrator because he never expected his younger brother to be able to crawl, walk, or even to be able to run. In the story the narrator tells the readers “I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” But as life goes on, you have to understand that everybody can’t be the same, we all are unique for a reason. The narrator didn’t want to see his brother like this because this would ruin the way he viewed his own brother. Even though they both got mad at each other sometimes, the narrator had to understand that Doodle was meant to be here for a reason and that reason could be to make his

Doodle’s brother is very proud of him and knows that Doodle is not the typical brother that you would want to have. It states in the passage, “He was a burden in many ways.” The doctor told the narrator and his