Summary Of The Scarlet Ibis By James Hurst

Could you ever imagine murdering your own sibling? After reading “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, at first most people think that poor little doodle died of natural causes or he got hurt during the storm, when his brother left him. This Essay will tell you all about how that first thought is a big misconception. At the end of the story Doodle and his brother get out of their boat and a storm begins, while the narrator leaves Doodle in the storm, knowing doodle is trying to catch up. So when his brother came back he was huddled up into a ball, dead. It is the narrators fault for doodles death out of pride forcing him to walk, taking his strength away when his parents told him he was fragile , and he was cruel to him in many ways. The first reason why the author is to blame for doodles death, is because when Doodle turned 5, he forced Doodle to learn how to walk. Even though it sounded like a good idea at the moment, he just helped Doodle because he didn’t want to be embarrassed when school started. In the story the narrator says “When Doodle was five years, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age, that couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him.”(Hurst, 353) This is proof that out of his own

In the middle of the story, Hurst made doodle touch his casket even though he knew he didnt like that,(“Doodle studied the mahogany box for a long time, then said, “It’s not mine.” “It is,” I said. “And before I’ll help you down from the loft, you’re going to have to touch it.”Hurst, 353) The second time, he left Doodle alone twice scaring him even more. I think Doodle died partly from panicking. When his older brother found him, he didnt find any wounds on the outside. Doodle was very fragile, the narrator even mentioned that in the very beggining that his parents told him to be very careful with him, and he wasn’t emotionally or physically over