“Brother, Brother don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!” I turned around I would never leave my brother, I apprehensively turned around keeping the hope that Doodle wasn’t hurt. Even though Doodle was kind of a virulent to me, always following me around being my shadow; I still love him even though he can irritate me. I had inferred that Doodle was hurt when I couldn’t see him anymore, I had lost all hope so quickly. Amazingly when I turned around I saw Doodle running up behind me. I had never felt so much pride in my entire, despite the rain pouring down on me I had never felt better. He was actually running! Moving him legs quickly pumping his arms as fast as he could, he was running! All of our hard work was paid off at that moment, us running together was a dream both of us didn’t think we would experience. Regardless to how happy I was reality soon hit me like a ton of bricks, this storm was not letting up in fact it was …show more content…
The next thing I knew I was on the ground, and there was no way I was going to get up. I must have tripped on something, I was seriously hurt. My time with Doodle flashed before my eyes. I remembered when Doodle first came home to the time at Old Women Swap when he was learning how to walk. The excitement everyone felt that day Doodle walked in the dining room, and the sadness everyone felt when he found that dead red bird. I’m such a hypocrite, all this time I was pushing Doodle and I am not even able to push myself through this. I began to think abstract, obscure thoughts no longer being able to discern one thing from the next. I suddenly realised what was happening, I was shutting down and I couldn’t stop it. I was dying, this was a valid fact. My family were going to have to find my in a ditch dead, I would never be able to say good bye. Doodle and I would never build that house at Old Womens Swap like we had planned, I was letting Doodle
The narrator saw doodles will to live and saw the change in doodle he saw him change into a brother.lets get in to the narrator's feelings to prove his innocence. When Doodle
He never really cared that things he might do to Doodle could kill him because of his condition. “I made him swim till he turned blue” pg. 357 and “Wherever we went I purposely walked fast, although he kept up his face turned red and his eyes became glazed. ”pg.
For the beginning on page 6 paragraph 3 or 4 it states “ I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us.” The reasoning that this is helpful in this case is that when he was afraid and careless he decided to run as fast as he could and as far away as he could make it without realizing his brother was no longer behind him. To add on to the situation on page 6 paragraph 1 or 2 it says “After we had drifted a long way.” So they are saying that Doodle was already drifting apart from his brother and his brother didn ' t care for it at all.
The Narrator is ashamed of Doodle for the fact that he is “not fully there.” When the Narrator figures out that Doodle would not be able to play and run with him, he decides to kill the Doodle. ‘I
He says this because he has to haul his brother around everywhere. (In page 1 paragraph 3) he was making plans to kill his brother because he couldn't play with him. He said that having a brother that wasn't there at all was unbearable, since he couldn't handle it he wanted to kill him? (Page 3 paragraph 5) says “ I was crying because doodle only was able to walk because i ashamed having a crippled brother. He only succeeded because he was ashamed because he had a special brother that couldn't walk.
As soon as Doodle is born the narrator shows a sense of disappointment and hatred towards his brother. One of the first signs of the narrator's feelings is in the third paragraph when he says “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.” This shows that the narrator was disappointed and horrified of having a brother who would not be all there. It also shows that he was so embarrassed by his brother that he would even kill his brother so he wouldn't be embarrassed.
Brother ran back only to find Doodle’s dead body and scarlet-hued blood flowing from his
Brother is cruel to Doodle. When Doodle goes riding on the go-cart with Brother, Brother purposely hurts him to discourage him from riding with him. Brother doesn’t like having this image of the invalid brother, who can’t walk.
This picture is the turning point and the prime reason that Doodle tried to stand and was able to overcome his fear.
But through time, his brother, the narrator of the story, helps him along the way. On page 4, Doodle and his brother show up to breakfast with a surprise for their parents, “There wasn’t a sound as Doodle walked slowly across the room and sat down at his place at the table. Then mama began to cry and ran over to him hugging him and kissing him. Daddy hugged him too” (Hurst).
and he was’” (Hurst 351). Brother taught Doodle how to walk for self-embarrassment later realized that he wasn’t the only one effected by
In the short story, “Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst uses characterization to demonstrate the idea that if pride isn’t controlled, it can take over a person’s life and blur out the needs of others during one’s pursuit of success. Pride, the satisfactory feelings that one experiences after an achievement of some sort, is a two-way street; it both fills a person with gratitude, and confirmation that they succeeded, but it also is the driving force behind the guilt that quickly follows after one ceases to prioritize themselves. Brother fights to surpass this manipulative feeling, but is soon forced to succumb. Once Doodle had made it to five years old, Brother became fed-up with the embarrassment that emanated from Doodle, as he was everything but
At first the narrator sees Doodle as a crazy frail brother but as we move into the story, we can observe a lot of varying feelings brother has towards Doodle. Brother described Doodle as unbearable, an invalid brother, a brother who was not there at all, so he started
It is illogical to blame the young narrator for Doodle’s death, since one cannot anticipate that the narrator will have sufficient life experience to foresee the outcomes of abandoning
What he found did not please him, and he panics upon his discovery of Doodle’s limp body, crying out for him as he held Doodle in his arms. The narrator calls for Doodle, saying “Let’s go, Doodle” (564). Upon not receiving an answer, he lifts his head to discover Doodle “had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red” (564). The narrator cries out “Doodle! Doodle!”