Barbarous Brother The Scarlet Ibis is a short story written by James Hurst where two brothers, William Armstrong whose nicknamed Doodle, the narrator, Brother whose name is not mentioned in the story. The story was written from a perspective in which the narrator recalls these events from his childhood and growing up with his younger brother. Doodle was born prematurely and had many restrictions in life. In the end, Brother ultimately leaves his brother alone to die in a storm. With the information, Brother was only partially to blame for Doodle’s death on the argumentative side of ethos. Firstly, Brother expected Doodle to be able to do the same things he could. Doodle often could not handle these expectations. When Doodle was merely five