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Why Did Brother Kill Doodle

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The Death of Pride Did Brother kill Doodle? If not,then who?I think that pride in fact can sometimes be a destructive force. If someone has pride in themselves to do something bad then that can most definitely be a destructive force. Based on evidence in the text,I believe that brother is guilty for killing his sibling Doodle. In the beginning of the story Brother wanted to smother Doodle because he wasn’t “all there”. Brother was forced to take Doodle wherever he went.This probably made him annoyed of Doodle’s presence.Brother wanted a brother that could do everything that he could. Brother also pushed Doodle just to make him “normal”.Brother said that he was ,”...embarrassed of having a cripple brother”,as stated on page 347. He even

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