The Scarlet Ibis By James Hurst: Short Story Analysis

“‘Doodle!’ I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his” (426). In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, the narrator, known as Brother, brings his younger brother, Doodle, to his destined death a little earlier in his life. Brother, being only thirteen, does not think very highly of his six year old younger brother Doodle. Doodle’s real name is William Armstrong but the narrator discovered his nickname when he sees him crawling backwards like a doodlebug. Doodle has a variety of physical limitations such as he cannot become “too excited, too hot, too cold, or too tired and that he must always be treated gently” (417).The narrator resents Doodle due to all these physical limitations.

“THE SCARLET IBIS” Page 1 In In James Hurst's short story “ The Scarlet Ibis,” two brothers one named Doodle and the other one unnamed. Doodle is born weak and can not even pick himself up till he is two years old then gets put in the living room. The two brother spend a lot of time together go to Old Womans Swamp. The narrator is embarrassed of his younger brother so he decides to teach him to walk out of pride. Then his pride makes him do more and more till it eventually

The allegory”The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is about two brother; one of the brothers name is Doodle and he is born with a birth defect and he is expected to die, but his older brother wants him to be normal, so he tries to teach him how to run and swim .First, you should know that doddle family expected him to die so they built him a little coffin. Doodle started doing things like crawling, but backwards when he was a baby, but the doctor said the strain of sitting up could kill him because of his weak heart. As Doodle got older, he started doing more and more normal things like running, walking, and swimming. One day Doodle and his brother were running in the woods while a storm was happening and Doodle fell and his brother kept running,

“When Doodle was five years old. I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk.” (pg.388) The Scarlet Ibis and Doodle both struggled when interacting with what was normal for their species. When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to try to move himself, straining

In “The Scarlet Ibis”, by James Hurst, a narrator tells a story in flashback of his childhood experiences with his brother, Doodle. He makes us aware of how Doodle was expected to die because of his weak heart, but he lived. Doodle learned to crawl, but he couldn’t walk or do many of the most common physical activities because of his disability. When Doodle was five, Brother taught him to walk and they decided to set a deadline of when Doodle should be able to box, run, swim, and row a boat. They struggled to reach the deadline and the work was very laborious for Doodle.

Introduction In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis”, by James Hurst, it tells about a boy and his crippled brother. Throughout the story there are many events that depicts how the brothers are different and how the narrator is embarrassed by him. The theme of this story is that pride and ego can be harmful. 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.

The short story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” was written by the author, James Hurst. The main character was six years old when he became a brother. His new brother, Doodle, was expected to die, but he ended up living and was disabled his entire life. The main character was unaccepting of Doodle’s disabilities, and attempted to train Doodle to be a fully capable child. The author uses imagery and foreshadowing to reveal Doodle’s sensitive and servile nature.

When I almost got beat up. When I was about 8 years old my brother was going to beat me up because I broke his new toy. That he just got from mom and dad.I felt terrified. One summer day my parents got my brother a new toy but never got me one, so I took his toy and started playing with it. My brother got mad that I was playing with his toy.

At his last birthday party, we had water guns and his fingers could not pull the trigger on one or even hold it right. His body did not function right sometimes and it took him a little longer than normal to take his first steps. Everything started to make sense to me now. My brother may never say his first words. I may never get to hear him call me ‘sissy’ or even talk to him about his day.

I have only missed my relay at another meet because the cotched didn 't tell me that I had a relay, it was at one of the most important meets in missouri valley that only the top 5 swimmers in a stroke get invited too. I got yelled at after that one to because it was a really important meet. I missed another relay because the timers told us that we weren 't in their lane and we 're pretty sure that they were trying to sabotage us because they knew we were going to win, and they were parents that I didn 't recognise. But me and my relay got to swim with the 16-18 year old’s relay and we almost didn 't get last but we did even though we were 12 and 13 year old’s. I took from those relays that I should try not to miss an event or relay but if I do then I might have a small chance to go in a different heat, And I shouldn 't leave unless I know for sure that I don 't have anything left for that day.