Narrator's Cruelty In The Scarlet Ibis By James Hurst

People tend to underestimate and abuse the things they have and don’t realize how much they need it until it’s gone. People don’t appreciate what they are given and would underestimate it or be cruel to it and because of their immature actions they lose it in the end and realize how much they needed it. A similar scenario happens in the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, and teaches you the results of cruelty. When a boy named Doodle was born, the narrator had very low expectations for him and named him Doodle because, like he said you wouldn’t much from someone named Doodle. But because of his cruelty he ended up accidently killing his brother ending his happiness. Based on the analysis of characterization of The Narrator, it shows how

What Hurts is trying to say is that the thing that would change his life might not be what he was expecting. An example of a scene that demonstrates The Narrator's immature personality is in the Narrator's house in the beginning of the story when Doodle was just born The Narrator changes his younger brother's name to Doodle because he said you wouldn’t expect much from someone named Doodle. In this scene Doodle was just born and then The Narrator was disappointed on how instead of having a normal baby brother he looks very weak and looks like he is about to die instead. The Narrator thoughts of Doodle was a disappointment when he was first born “He was born when [he] was Six and was, from the outset, a disappointment. {he} seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man” [Hurst 25]. When The Narrator says that “When he was born he was a disappointment”, it's clear

An example of a scene that demonstrates The Narrator’s immature personality is when he was thinking of his brother and how he was embarrassment to him and was thinking of killing him. In this scene The Narrator was talking about how it was embarrassing to have a handicapped brother and was thinking of how he can end it by smothering his brother with a pillow to kill him. “It was enough having an invalid brother, but having one that was possibly not all there was unbearable, so [he] began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” [Hurst 26]. When The Narrator says that “But having one that was not all there was unbearable” shows that he really dislikes his brother to the point where he doesn’t want Doodle to exist because he was just a disappointment and was even thinking of plans to kill him. In this scene the family were thinking of naming Doodle William Armstrong and The Narrator didn’t like that name because he thought the name didn't suit him so he named him Doodle. The Narrator didn’t expect much from his brother and named him Doodle because you wouldn’t expect much from him “Renaming [his] brother was the kindest thing [he] ever did for him, because nobody expects much from someone named Doodle” [hurst 25]. When the narrator talks about renaming his brother because he didn’t deserve his name shows how he felt about him and how he