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Character Analysis: Responsible For Doodle's Death

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Yes, The Brother is responsible for Doodle’s death. He was never supportive for his brother when he needed his help the most, he knew Doodle was going to die soon anyway, and he never accepted Doodle for himself. The Brother was never supportive for Doodle when he needed his help the most. I heard Doodle, who had fallen behind, cry out, “Brother, Brother, don’t leave me! Don’t leave me! Doodle’s brother had left him out in the rain while he was struggling to catch up. “I ran as fast as I could leaving him far behind.”The Brother has left Doodle knowing he has a horrible disease that has taken over Doodle’s body. He knows that it’s wrong, so why is he doing this.“I won’t touch it,” he said sullenly. “Then I’ll leave you here by yourself,” I threatened, and made as if I were going down. He is doing something to make Doodle feel uncomfortable, he is not there for his brother. …show more content…

“One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all believed he would die.” Why would he foreshadow upon Doodle’s death, is he doing this to make Doodle lose hope or is he doing this to make Doodle believe that there is a way he can live. I believe that he is doing this to make Doodle lose hope because he is showing no affection for Doodle whats so ever. “I would teach him how to run, to swim, to climb trees, and to fight.” He is pushing Doodle to hard, which has its ways of teaching a lesson to brother. Doodle just learned to walk and he is already interested in teaching Doodle other tricks he can’t do. Doodle studied the mahogany box for a long time, then said, “It’s not mine.” The brother was admitting to Doodle that he would die soon. Why would he do that? Is he jealous of Doodle? Maybe he was planning his brother’s death all

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Doodle is lost on society, consequently having Brother to guide him; with him following Brother, although sometimes unwillingly. Condemning Doodle into touching the mahogany coffin is to remind him of his mortality. “His hand trembling, reached out, and when he reached the casket, he screamed.” Consequently, by forcing Doodle into touching the casket, Brother is designating him incapable of normality. Alongside this, the coffin foreshadows the

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Doodles brother was embarrassed to have a not all there brother. It was very clear at the beginning of the book that the brother wanted doodle dead. His brother never wanted to be around him because he was scared to be made fun of. He wanted doodle to run and swim and play like all the other children

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It's the narrators fault for the following reasons: he was selfish, he was embarrassed of him, and he pressured him. The narrator was being selfish as he admitted that he did it for himself because he was ashamed of Doodle being crippled. Doodle looks up to his brother and would do anything for his approval. The narrator knows that his brother's heart is weak, forces Doodle

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I do believe the brother did have to have some love for Doodle, he gave him his name after all. On page 345 it says, “It was I who renamed him… Crawling backward made him look like a doodlebug so I began to call him Doodle. Renaming my brother was perhaps the kindest thing I ever did for him, because nobody expects much from someone called Doodle.” But all in all if this brother truly had a sincere love for Doodle he would never have done the things he did to him or had any of the thoughts I’ve mentioned above.

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Brother leaving Doodle behind when he was screaming just shows that he wasn’t being nice enough to his brother. Leaving your brother behind is really mean. If he wouldn’t have left Doodle behind maybe the outcome would’ve been different. Brother wouldn’t have gone back and seen Doodle all bloody. Brother caused Doodle

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Brother often foreshadows that Doodle is a burden to bare with. Brother reckons, “The knowledge that Doodle’s and my plans had come to naught was bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awaked. I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us” (Hurst 6). Just the idea if Doodle in Brother's Plans and the obstacle he would become was too much for Brother to handle. Because if this act Brother is once again showing an act of selfishness.

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If you had a brother that you loved so much, would you want him to die? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Doodle and Brother had a special bond. The two of them always went to Old Woman Swamp together, they would make necklaces and crowns out of flowers and wire grass, Brother even taught Doodle how to walk. When Doodle was born, the doctor said he will not live long, so Doodle’s death was expected.

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Since the moment Doodle was born, Bother was always disappointed that Doodle didn’t share the same traits as him. Since Doodle needed a lot of care, Brother didn’t want him to get in the way of his own life. “so I began to make plans to kill him” (line 41) Brother didn’t want Doodle’s disabilities to get in his way, so he just wanted to get rid of him. This reveals Brother’s selfishness and how he only cares about what will benefit himself. “and showed him his casket” (line 103)

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The tone on which this part of the story is told makes the reader feel Brother's thoughts of regret and sadness while looking back on what he remembers of Doodle. As the rainstorm was building up, so were Brother's emotions. All he could think about was the shame he felt towards Doodle and what other people would think of him. In the beginning of this story, Brother is sitting by Doodles grave and thinking back at what had happened. “I sit in the cool, green-draped parlor, the grindstone begins to turn, and time with all its changes is ground away—and I remember Doodle” (line 13).

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His hand, trembling, reached out, and when he touched the casket, he screamed.(4)" His brother is very uncaring, and dismisses it as nothing. Doodle is, however, willing to do this if it means his sibling does not leave him. This willingness and drive to be a people-pleaser is a factor of his death.

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He says “but having (a brother) who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” The narrator eventually discovers his brother is “all there” or mentally sound so he decides to try to teach him to walk and make him into the brother he wants him to be. He realizes that he is only teaching Doodle due to his own pride. He doesn’t want to have a brother with a disability. When his brother first walks he says, “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.”

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Brother planned to spend his entire life with Doodle, They "decided that when [they] were grown [they'd] live in Old Woman Swamp and pick dog-tongue" (Hurst). He wanted Doodle to have pride in himself and be able to do everything Brother wanted to do with him. Brother had pride in Doodle since he was first able to stand on his own and walk. He taught Doodle out of his own selfishness, he was ashamed of having an "invalid" brother and wanted to have "someone to race to Horsehead Landing, someone to box with, and someone to perch within the top fork of the great pine behind the barn, where across the fields and swamps you could see the sea" (Hurst). Brother was ashamed of the way he felt and his self-indulgent efforts for Doodle.

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