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The Struggle In Mark Twain's 'Scarlet Ibis'

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Scarlet Ibis essay If someone is selfish they won’t always get what they expect/want. In this story there is a boy who is the narrator and he wants a brother so bad. He finally gets one but he not any ordinary brother. This brothers name was Doodle. “ he laid there on his stomach, the doctor said that his heart was going to burst if he were to walk” (hurst 417). In this quote they are saying that doodle is a bit special. “ i 'm going to teach his how to walk so i don 't have to carry him around everywhere i go “hurst 419). So the narrator is trying to teach doodle how to walk so that he didn 't have to carry him everywhere he went because he was embarrassed of doodle. . “I wasn 't going to tell them that i taught im how to walk just

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