Similarities and Differences Between Doodle and Simon With the number of books published and the number of movies made, it is hard to find a character that is completely unique; many characters have at least one other character from a different book or movie that shares a few traits. Doodle from The Scarlet Ibis and Simon from the movie Simon Birch are noexception from this. They may seem like unique characters, however they might not seem so different on closer inspection. Doodle, as his brother describes him,”[He] was, from the outset, a disappointment. He seemed all head, with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man’s” (Hurst). Nobody believed that he would live for more than a couple of days. Until he was six, doodle wasn’t