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"I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death." This quote from The Scarlet Ibis summarizes my comparisons with Doodle's brother. He would be the short story character I would pick to represent me. The main attribute I share with him is our determination. We also share an enormous amount of pride. The last characteristic we share is lots of selfishness, which can be a bad thing in some cases. There are many things that are strongly alike and dislike between Brother and I, but these are the most obvious. Many times throughout the story you can directly and indirectly see the brother’s strong drive to help Doodle. While reading the story, I could see myself as him because
of our strong drive. In the story, Brother is driven by his love and connections to Doodle to help him learn to walk, run, swim, and so on. This is like me because when presented with a task, I will work as hard as I can to get it done. Our driven personality is one way that Doodle’s brother and I can relate. Likewise, Brother and I share a large amount of pride. In The Scarlet Ibis, Doodle’s brother finds pride in helping Doodle to overcome the expectations that everyone has laid on him. I can relate to this because I find pride in helping others as well. In the story Brother says, “He smiled Mama! He’s all there! He’s all there!” He found pride in finding this in Doodle, and this drove him to push Doodle even harder. I hope that my pride in myself and others will help me to push everyone throughout my life. Lastly, I can compare myself to Doodle’s brother because of our unwilling selfishness. If Brother had been able to control himself better, he might have had more compassion for Doodle and not pushed him as much. It was his selfishness that let him find pride in helping Doodle, although it didn’t turn out too well in the end. In comparison, Brother is me because we both find pride in situations that would normally make us seem very selfish, even if we thought we were helping. My senseless selfishness is the third and final way that I see my personality within Doodle’s brother. The older brother from The Scarlet Ibis reflects me and my personalities in dozens of ways. We are both driven, prideful, and selfish in both good and bad ways. Many people find pride in the things they do, but I would rather be humble, not proud. Thomas Merton once said, "Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real." In the short story The Scarlet Ibis, Doodle's brother might have been proud of what he did for Doodle, but I strive to be humble in myself and my actions in life.
Doodle was like a shooting star in the night sky. He was rare and special. Doodle was a unique person that was different and didn’t fit in. Doodle was born sick and no one thought he would live, but he did end up living and his brother spent much of his time helping Doodle become stronger and learn to walk. Over time in the story Doodle got stronger, but in the end he eventually died. In “The Scarlet Ibis” James Hurst uses creative symbols such as the color red, the scarlet ibis bird, and the seasons to represent the life of Doodle.
Doodle and Simon have many similarities. They both have heart conditions and have to adjust to their lives but that is really the only similarity. In the movie Simon Birch by Mark Steve Johnson, the character Simon never has a completely normal life because of his disability. In the book “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, Doodle never came close to normal because of his heart condition. Doodle and Simon have similarities but are different in many ways.
Who is the dynamic character in “The Scarlet Ibis?” To answer this question, one must first know what a dynamic character is or means. A dynamic character is one who changes by the end of the story. In “The Scarlet Ibis” the narrator is the one who is the dynamic character. How? First of all, the reason why the narrator is dynamic is he feels atrocious of how he has treated Doodle, his brother. The second reason is the narrator comprehends he should have appreciated his brother more. The last reason is the narrator feels fallacious of what he has done to Doodle; which has possibly led to Doodle’s death.
He also exhibits kindness and love toward Doodle during parts of the story. For instance when Doodle’s brother tires of carrying Doodle in a go-cart, he decides to teach Doodle how to walk. Although Doodle fails numerous times, his brother keeps trying and and encourages him after a particularly disheartening fail when he says “Yes you can Doodle. All you gotta do is try. Now come on,” (Hurst 558). In this quote Doodle struggles to walk by himself. However, his determined brother stays with him the entire time and encourages Doodle to make sure he never gives up and can learn how to walk by himself. The evidence shows that Doodle’s brother does care for Doodle and that he is not always mean and cruel. The quote exemplifies Doodle’s brother’s ambivalent attitude toward his brother. The author is trying to show that Doodle’s brother grows fonder of Doodle with each passing day. Doodle’s brother’s growing love for Doodle becomes more evident as the story progresses. After Doodle learns to walk well, he and his brother, “roamed off together, resting often, we never turned back until our destination had been reached” (Hurst 559). This quote shows that Doodle’s brother grows fonder of Doodle and the two become inseparable. They go everywhere together and Doodle’s brother takes care of Doodle when they go on their journey. Hence, Doodle’s brother becomes a kind, loving brother who takes care of Doodle and tries to make Doodle have a happy life.
The narrator’s pride had a negative effect on Doodle. The narrator said, ”Shut up, I’m not going to hurt you,”(Hurst 3). Here the narrator is telling his little brother to shut up, but that is cruel and an ineffective way to deliver the message. Next, “‘I won’t touch it,’ Doodle said, ‘Then I will leave you here” the older brother replied (Hurst 2). The situation is that when Doodle was little, the family did not think Doodle would survive, so Doodle’s family made the decision to
The two characters come to the realization that they do share a brotherly bond, and that the narrator cares deeply for his brother even after all the time apart. The narrator says, “I don’t give a damn wh...
Brother is too engulfed in his selfish desire for a ‘better’ brother that he does not give Doodle a chance to rest. “I made him swim until he turned blue, and row until he couldn’t lift an oar.” This excerpt shows the reader how ruthless Brother is in the training he has set up for Doodle. Brother appears to care more about him being capable of doing these ‘fun’ things than his brother having fun doing them does. “Success lay at the end of the summer like a pot of gold” When Brother says this, he relays how he is greedy for a better brother and will do anything to get what he wants.
In the story, the narrator's pride sometimes takes him over and eventually kills his brother Doodle. At the end of the story, the narrator " as I [He] lay sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain" (176).
Blood is thicker than water, but sometimes pride is thicker than both. Such is the case with James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis." This is a dramatic short story about two brothers, in which the older brother manipulates and is later responsible for the death of his younger brother, Doodle. These actions proved that he did not love Doodle.
Brother doesn’t think twice about Doodle and how he’s doing. Even when brother see’s Doodle’s health deteriorating he still keeps Doodle’s limits. (Commentary)
“They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices; and that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” (Hurst 50). This supports the claim that this is Brother’s fault, because if he were never ashamed of Doodle in the first place, he wouldn’t be given all of the extra stress running has brought his body. The narrator was very strict, and hard on Doodle because he wanted a brother that was “all there.” Brother would have been much nicer, and understanding if his decision to teach Doodle to do things like the other children was based on
Humans are never perfect, and their emotions often conflict with their logic. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, the narrator receives a physically disabled brother, Doodle, thus trains Doodle physically so that he could live a normal life. Throughout the story, the narrator’s actions and thoughts reveals his true personalities to the audience as he slowly narrates the story of himself and his scarlet ibis, Doodle, whose existence he dreaded. In the story written by James Hurst, pride, love, and cruelty, these conflicting character traits all exists in Doodle’s brother. And the most severe of all, pride.
...verything” (Hurst 1). The brother only cared about himself and having fun, and did not think about the affect his actions had on Doodle. The brother decides to “teach him [Doodle] to run, to swim, to climb trees, and to fight” (Hurst 3). Readers can begin to infer that the brother’s careless actions will later lead to serious injury or the death of Doodle.
The narrator was a good, caring brother who never intended to kill doodle through his action. In the story, it says ‘“Aw, come on Doodle.” I urged “You can do it. Do you want to be different from everybody else when you start school?” “Does it make any difference?” “It certainly does,” I said. “Now, come on,” and I began to help him up’ this quote shows how the narrator really wanted to push his brother to new heights and achieve more than just the normal kid at his age. It also shows how much the narrator loved him to push him to his limits which brings me to my next
how Doodle loved his brother, and that he did not want to be separated from him.