Doodle: My Father's Mistake

A person learns good things in life by either looking at somebody mistake or by looking at his or her own mistakes. In this story, the author is feeling guilty for the pain he gave to his little brother. The author had written this story in the memory of his little brother. Most of the time in life we do not understand the importance to our family member or friend when they are with us, but we understand their importance and miss them when they die or go far away from us. That same thing happened to the author he used to hate his brother and then slowly he started to like his brother and when his little brother died he felt love for him.
The author was not able to forget the time he had to spend with his little brother. When we do something

Author has captured in his mind the negativity from his parents. Sometimes the unpleasant environment of the house makes a significant impact on the children's life. Author parents used to think bad about the doddle so that why he also started to think like them. "Daddy had Mr. Heath, the carpenter, build a little mahogany coffin for him" (par. 3). So, the daddy of the author used to think that doddle will die soon, and mother also used to think the same. Only the mother of doodle was thinking that doodle will not die. Parents of author used to think negative about doodle and doodle mother were thinking positive about him so maybe the family members have some fight going on and doodle was suffering because of it. The author was a small baby, so he wanted somebody to play with him. So, he was dreaming of the time when doodle will play with him, but a mother of the author said that doodle will never able to play with him because of his disability. Mother of an author has negativity about doodle. "But Mama, crying, told me that even if William Armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me" (par.4). As the author heard that doodle will never play with him he started thinking that doodle is useless because he cannot play. Small children only think of play and they like the person who plays with them. So, the author decided to kill his little brother because the mother said that

Mother of doodle was saying that doddle will not die because he was born in the caul. As caul is a membrane which sometimes gets surrounded by the baby at the time of birth but in Christianity, the people think that caul is night grown of god Jesus. And the baby who has a blessing of god Jesus everything goes fine with that baby. When author changed the name of William Armstrong to doodle, the mother of doodle said that we cannot name a baby who born with caul a doddle because caul baby can also become saint one day. Saint are treated with respect in the society because they are the people of God. Everybody who has taken birth in the world has to die one day but in Christianity people believe that when a red bird dies it is bad luck. Mother of doodle was saying that when the red bird dies it is thought to be of bad