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The Scarlet Ibis Doodle Character Traits

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In “The Scarlet Ibis,” by James Hurst, Doodle is sensitive and is a static character. A scene in the story that shows this character trait is when the doctor was telling them of what he can and can’t do in order for him to stay healthy. “He mustn't get too excited, too hot, too cold, or too tired and that he must always be treated gently.” This reminds me of an elderly person and how sensitive their bodies are. This event is a good example because it shows that Doodle is fragile. His delicate body also reminds me of a porcelain doll and how delicate you have to handle them. With those living conditions, it seems like you are very vulnerable to anything. Another scene where the trait is sensitive is when he couldn’t laid on his belly because it would strain his body. “The doctor said that …show more content…

So James said that if he didn’t touch it, then he would leave Doodle. His sensitive side came out. “Doodle was frightened of being left, “Don’t leave me Brother!” He said.” The sensitivity in his voice showed that he relied on his brother. His brother constantly pushing him over his limits didn’t help anything. He soon gives in and touches the coffin and gets a frightening surprise of birds coming from the coffin. He can’t do anything because he was paralyzed so if he didn’t touch it, then he would literally leave him there. His brother was intentionally terrorizing him for no reason. In conclusion, Doodle is a fragile character in the whole story, and doesn’t have a major change. His body represents a fragile bird, the Scarlet Ibis, who can parrish easily. James pushes and pushes Doodle throughout his life and Doodle’s delicateness killed him in the end. If James didn’t leave him, he could have had a chance to live. But James’s bad side came out and left him all on his own. Doodle was was making such good progress too. James just gave up on

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Doodles brother is responsible for the death of his own brother. Three big reasons that led me to believe this is that he always wanted doodle gone from the beginning, he was ashamed and very embarrassed of having a disabled brother, and that he only helped doodle for his own personal benefit. All of those show why he left his brother in that storm to die. From doodles birth his brother never liked him or cared about him and wanted him gone. One example is “i began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.”

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The older brother gets mad, and Doodle dies. Doodle is overall a favorite character for people because he’s just an incredible character everyone could love. Doodle had a unique personality. His family and older brother thought this as well. His brother even described him, “Doodle was just about the craziest brother a boy ever had.

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The author of The “Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst, symbolizes Doodle with the scarlet ibis in a number of different ways. To begin, when describing the looks of the scarlet ibis, the author writes, “At that moment the bird began to flutter, but the wings were uncoordinated, and amid much flapping and a spray of flying feathers, it tumbled down, bumping through the limbs of the bleeding tree and landing at our feet with a thud.” With this description, the reader pictures the bird limp and lifeless on the ground in a mangled heap. The bird bleeds as it falls out of the tree, as it helplessly descends from the branch. The author describes Doodle in much the same way, and he uses some of the same words to do so when he writes, “Limply, he fell backwards onto the earth.

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The brother is to blame for doodles death. Doodle was a disabled young child with a selfish brother that only looks out for himself. His brother was ashamed to be with or around him. One of the biggest reasons wanted him dead is because he was embarrassed to be around him. The three reasons I believe that the brother wanted to kill doodle was he was embarrassed, he pushed him to hard, and he was selfish.

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Doodle loved his brother. Doodle always wanted to be with his brother brother and tried to do whatever his brother asked

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Doodle ended up learning to walk and talk, which shows that he develops throughout the story. As you know, the name of the poem is "The Scarlet Ibis," which you can connect to the rage and redness of Doodle's brother wanting to kill him. Doodle is very weak he seemed all head with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man. Everybody thought he was going to die—everybody except Aunt Nicey, who had delivered him.

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This all adds to the end of the story when Brother does leave Doodle. This shows how strong brothers feelings were that he put doodle through his worst fear after he let his emotions get the best of him. In this next part of the story, the family is eating lunch when they notice a red bird in their yard. When they take a closer look, they realize the bird was dying. “A scarlet ibis!

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The narrator shows multiple times throughout the story how Doodle is weak. As soon as the flashback started the narrator said , “Everybody thought he was going to die” (416). The only person in the story that though he would live was Aunt Nicey. Later in the story Doodle showed some improvement was but he was still very weak.

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He took time to give this beautiful bird a grave because he cared for the bird. In summary, Doodle’s ability to let his brother’s malicious nature towards him slide and digging the scarlet ibis a grave is proof that he’s a caring

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Do you ever feel like you are out of place? Do people behave differently towards you? In James Hurst’s short story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” a character by the name of Doodle is disabled at a young age. This results in his elder brother, also the narrator, to behave with conflicting personalities toward Doodle. In his short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” James Hurst uses Doodle’s brother in order to show how he is both cruel and kind towards his younger brother Doodle.

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The readers learn to value relationships, to not allow pride to become an evil necessity, and to appreciate the little things. These all combine to contribute to the overall theme. With the narrator’s brother, becoming weaker and weaker, day by day, it creates an uneasy feeling arising from the reader, about the results of Doodle, and if he will survive. The narrator reflects back on the memories, and the love he surely had for Doodle, “There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle” (597). This quote justifies the guilt the narrator had, in effect of not every fully acknowledging the passion and devotion he actually had towards Doodle.

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Later on, the Brother expressed disappointment in Doodle; he explained, “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn't walk” (466). The Brother was ashamed of Doodle for something he couldn't control; therefore, he only cared about his prosperity and no one

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Brother planned to spend his entire life with Doodle, They "decided that when [they] were grown [they'd] live in Old Woman Swamp and pick dog-tongue" (Hurst). He wanted Doodle to have pride in himself and be able to do everything Brother wanted to do with him. Brother had pride in Doodle since he was first able to stand on his own and walk. He taught Doodle out of his own selfishness, he was ashamed of having an "invalid" brother and wanted to have "someone to race to Horsehead Landing, someone to box with, and someone to perch within the top fork of the great pine behind the barn, where across the fields and swamps you could see the sea" (Hurst). Brother was ashamed of the way he felt and his self-indulgent efforts for Doodle.

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The quote “He seemed all head with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man’s”, Gave the reader a view of how fragile Doodle’s body is. They thought at first, he was not going to make it, but he ended up surviving. When the mom explains to the older brother, Doodle is different and will not be able to do things that other kids do, he is then disappointed at having Doodle as his brother. He wants to be able to do things with Doodle, like he would be able to do with the other kids,

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At first the narrator sees Doodle as a crazy frail brother but as we move into the story, we can observe a lot of varying feelings brother has towards Doodle. Brother described Doodle as unbearable, an invalid brother, a brother who was not there at all, so he started

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