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Doodle To Stand Alone Analysis

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It is in the paragraph in which Doodle’s brother teaches Doodle to stand alone is essential, because it allows the reader to feel emotional connection towards Doodle and the author develops this situation as a major climatic book in the short story The Scarlet Ibis. Doodle is a young boy who is mentally disabled, resulting in him not able to stand on his own feet. His brother is embarrassed and ashamed of Doodle’s inability to stand, let alone walk, or play like the other boys. Therefore, he set out to teach him to walk, which was a difficult process because Doodle didn’t want to try. It was only until Doodle’s brother painted a picture of Doodle and him in the future where they are old men and Doodle isn’t able to walk and “this never failed to make him try again.” This picture is the turning point and the prime reason that Doodle tried to stand and was able to overcome his fear. …show more content…

Later followed when Doodle’s brother “grabbed [Doodle] in [his] arms and hugged him.” The diction hugged, is often associated with love and indicates that Doodle has been accepted by his brother and that he is happy with Doodle. Contrasting other themes in the short story where Doodle falls and his brother doesn’t pick him

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So this why I think the narrator's intentions were true a first then later it became for his own satisfaction. If he accepted for who he was and not what the narrator wanted maybe he still would have been alive till this date. It's also true that if it wasn’t for the narrator doodle wouldn’t be able to walk but at least he would be

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this theme is shown throwing the plot of the story and the charters. The brother after feeling ashamed of doodle not being normal does the brother teach Doodle how to walk. “At breakfast on our chosen day, when mama and daddy, and aunt nicely were in the dining room, I brought doodle throw the door in the go-cart just as usual v and had them turn their backs, making them cross their hearts and hope to die if they peaked. I helped doodle up, and when he was standing alone I let them look. There wasn't a sound as doodle walked

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Doodle loved his brother. Doodle always wanted to be with his brother brother and tried to do whatever his brother asked

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Doodle and the narrator are affected by self-esteem negatively. When Doodle is being helped by the narrator, he has troubles keeping up at the narrator's pace and ends up getting frustrated and deterred: “Once, he could go no further, so he collapsed on the ground and began to cry” (Hurst 164). Since the narrator continued to walk quicker than Doodle, it clearly shows that Doodle lacks enough self-esteem to tell his brother to advance slower or to stop. Not only does this clarify Doodles self-esteem deficiency, but it shows that he’s not even strong enough to stand up to his own brother. In the end, Doodles lack of self-esteem leads to his demise because he pushed his body too far without protesting.

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The narrator was occasionally cruel to Doodle. The narrator tries to get Doodle to touch the coffin that was built for him when he was born. When Doodle refuses, he threatens, “Then I’ll leave you here by yourself”. Doodle, being young and handicapped, is very dependent on his brother. Being alone terrifies him, and he uses that fear to force his brother to do something that scares

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asked Daddy, but I couldn’t answer. 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 468) This again shows how Doodle's brother did a nice act by helping Doodle learn to walk. The reason behind it is that he is ashamed of his brother which is a bad motivation.

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Hurst says, “that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother.” “ "What are you crying for? " asked Daddy, but I couldn't answer. They didn't know that I did it just for myself, that Doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother. ” (Hurst)

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He finally understood that “Doodle only walked because [he] was ashamed” and figured that this was not what Doodle really even wanted. In the short story, the narrator was characterized as one who cared less about the people around him than he did about himself. He would try to accomplish things that would benefit him personally but wouldn’t care at all about how it may affect others. This example of the narrator hurting someone helps explain that there must be careful thought before any action is made because of the way it may negatively affect a person. Later, towards the end of the story, the narrator made a life-changing decision regarding Doodle which further explained the importance of thinking before acting.

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The narrator loved Doodle. In the beginning of the story, Doodle had little chance to survive, and ”Everybody thought he would die-everybody except aunt Nicey, who delivered him.” The narrator, Doodle’s own brother, did not believe he would live, until Doodle was three years old lying on the bed. The narrator peeked through the iron bars of the bed, and Doodle looked right at him and smiled. The narrator skipped through the halls yelling, “he's all

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“He was born when I was six, from the outset, a disappointment”. (Hurst, 350) from the moment Doodle was born he was viewed as not good enough for the narrator. The narrator had longings of what a brother would be like, when his new brother was physically incapable to live up to his desire he tried to change him out of pridefulness. Embarrassment and pride were the only reasons that Doodle was taught to walk, not because the narrator thought he was able. “Shut up, I’m not going to hurt you, I’m going to teach you to walk” (Hurst, 354) Doodle’s disability was not something he could ‘fix’, and on account of his brothers ego, Doodle was pushed too far, thus ultimately he could be pushed no

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In the short story The Scarlet Ibis the narrator is a bad brother. He does malevolent and egoistic things to make himself feel better. He most of the things with doodle because he is either forced or for self pride and have a selfish and egoistic ground to them. He does things to Doodle sometimes just to be malicious. This goes off the sense that most good deeds have evil roots.

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"Doodle!" I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain”(Hurst 6).This section shows from the end of Doodle’s life onward Brother has felt guilty. The whole story is Brothers story of the dangers of pride and his personal experience.

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The narrator left Doodle behind, exposed to the elements, alone, and tired and frightened. Remember, Doodle was a sick, fragile boy who needed to be treated gently and with care. The narrator purposely left Doodle alone when he needed the narrator the most, which caused Doodle to

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Eventually the narrator taught Doodle to walk, then decided to teach Doodle other abilities that would make Doodle be considered “Normal.” The narrator was so engrossed in this task that he did not notice that Doodle could not keep up. “I made him swim until he turned blue and row until he couldn't lift an oar. Wherever we went, I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up, his face turned red and his eyes became glazed. Once, he could go no further, so he collapsed on the ground and began to cry.”

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The quote “He seemed all head with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man’s”, Gave the reader a view of how fragile Doodle’s body is. They thought at first, he was not going to make it, but he ended up surviving. When the mom explains to the older brother, Doodle is different and will not be able to do things that other kids do, he is then disappointed at having Doodle as his brother. He wants to be able to do things with Doodle, like he would be able to do with the other kids,

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