and he was’” (Hurst 351). Brother taught Doodle how to walk for self-embarrassment later realized that he wasn’t the only one effected by
Life is unfair sometimes but we have to climb over the obstacles and make ourselves stronger. In the story, the narrator states, “But all of us must have something or someone to be proud of, and Doodle had become mine. I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible
The narrator is is very determined to help Doodle walk. He can’t drag doodle around everywhere. This gives brother the idea to teach doodle to walk. At first doodle doesn't think he can do it.
On page 112,paragraph 6 the author gives a great example of the narrator being selfish . The reason I say the narrator is selfish is because is because he didn't care what Doodle wanted to do about his disabilities. He didn’t want to be the
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.
In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst there is a day where Doodle is brought to the barn loft and made to touch his casket, this is foreshadowing the upcoming event of Doodle’s death. First and foremost the fact that Doodle is being forced to touch his poison covered coffin by his brother is a representation of Doodle being pushed to the limit. The day he dies is the day brother pushes him over the edge, he makes Doodle work to point where he starts to cry. It begins with brother making “Doodle row back against the tide. ”(5).
The first time we are introduced to the motivation behind teaching Doodle to walk, and even the idea of teaching Doodle to walk, when the narrator tells us “I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk,
The narrator says, “Doodle told them it was I who had taught him to walk, so everyone wanted to hug me, and I began to cry” (Hurst 559). We can see the positive effects of the pride that the narrator has for Doodle in this passage because he cries when Doodle tells their family that it was him who had taught Doodle to walk. After Doodle learned to walk
The narrator has already proved shame in having a “crippled brother” and having self-centered motives for teaching Doodle how to
But, with the memory of Doodle’s birth to death he guilts himself into thinking it was his fault for Doodle’s passing. The final example is when the author states, “I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” The brother was proud of the accomplishments Doodle and him achieved. He loved his brother and wanted the best for him, but also wanted the best for himself. He believed that helping his brother would make Doodle feel “alive” and not worthless.
Doodle surmounts his struggle of not knowing how to walk by learning how to. Doodle is an adherent of his older brother because he wants to be like him. The narrator is very irate when he finds out his brother is different and “isn’t all there.”
The Scientific Method is a way to answer and ask scientific questions by creating a hypothesis and creating an experiment. The steps of the scientific method include: asking a question, background research, creating a hypothesis, test your hypothesis by doing an experiment, analyzing the data, drawing a conclusion, and finally publishing your results. There are many places in the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston in which steps of the scientific method are used, the first one I found was during the Kitum Cave expedition. In the Kitum Cave expedition, Eugene Johnson set up an experiment to test if the source of the virus that infected Peter Cardinal and Charles Monet was inside Kitum Cave.
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.”
There are many women who have been raped and it can be argued that ethically they have the right to have an abortion as they did not choose to get pregnant, but in Christianity’s view a life is a life, regardless of how it occurred. Christians are said to be apart of the pro-life arguments (Ridder, Karen. "Abortion: 5 Pro-Life Arguments Made by Christians.) Abortion runs counter to most Christian beliefs. Even those denominations that support the right, believe that abortion is most-often not the right choice.
Due to his hurtful actions, inflicted upon Doodle throughout his life, the Narrator feels deep shame for what he has caused. Through the elements of foreshadowing and dialogue, Hurst’s narration reveals the protagonist’s guilt, emphasizing his deep regret over his actions regarding his crippled brother. The Narrator foreshadows the eventual climax of the story through his words regarding his views of pride. He states, “But all of us must have something to be proud of, and Doodle had become mine.
