Is pride a good thing or a bad thing? Pride plays a big rule in the story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. The little brother Doodle is sick, has birth defects, and has heart problems. Brother is ashamed of him because he isn’t normal and he can’t run, walk, jump, and do anything every other kid can do at his age. Even though Doodle is disabled, Brother is guilty for picking his pride over his brother. Brother is very ashamed of his brother because he doesn't do anything a normal boy would do. He and his family were disappointed because he was slower than other kids. "He was born when I was six and was from the outset, a disappointment" (595). This proves that Brother dislikes Doodle because he doesn't want to be seen with him because he was embarresed. He also only cared about himself, not Doodle. Doodle liked to keep up with his brother and ignore all the donts his mom gave him just to make the Narrator happy. …show more content…
"Renaming my brother was perhaps the kindest thing I ever did for him, because nobody expects much from someone called doodle" (596). Narrator called him Doodle because a doodle bug crawls backwards and Doodle did the same thing when he learned to crawl. The narrator also said Doodle wasn't considered family until he learned how to crawl, that's when they finally took him out of that room in the front because they saw that he wasn't going to die anytime soon. After that Narrator carried Doodle around with him everywhere he went because Doodle couldn't walk yet. This made Brother guilty because he didn't like Doodle, and he named him after a bug because no one cared about someone named