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Literary analysis of the most dangerous game
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Literary analysis of the most dangerous game
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What do a trained assassin and a little boy with disabilities have in common? In my opinion short story characters have a lot in common, and are easily compared. A few things that Ivan and Doodle have in common are they are both “Slow”, Loyal, and had a sad death.
The first quality that I can compare between Ivan and Doodle is being “Slow”. In the story The Dangerous Game the character Ivan is considered to be on “slower” side. General Zaroff (Ivan’s boss) said, and I quote “Ivan is an incredibly strong fellow but, he has the misfortune of being deaf and dumb.” (Connell~pg.66) In my opinion General Zaroff was saying that Ivan was deaf and dumb and so he wasn’t able to learn as well as other people.
In the story The Scarlet Ibis the character Doodle is also considered “slow”, because he wasn’t able to crawl until he was around the age of 3. In the story his brother said , and I quote “But he learned to crawl (it was his third winter)” (Hurst~pg.464) Most of the time children start to crawl around the age of 8 months old. Doodle didn’t even start to crawl until he was 3. So he was very much behind.
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In my opinion Ivan is loyal because he always seems to stay with Zaroff even though he is a horrible man, he stays until the very end. In the story General Zaroff said, and I quote “he has the misfortune of being deaf and dumb. A simple fellow but I’m afraid like all his race is a bit of a savage.” (Connell~pg.66) In my mind Ivan is a very loyal man. Even though General Zaroff doesn’t think much of him, Ivan still stays
In “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, Doodle is an intelligent character. William “Doodle” Armstrong is a character who everybody thought was going to die. However, when Doodle lives on to see another day, he learns of the incredible world that his mind, but not necessarily his body, would be able to experience. Doodle’s first signs of intelligence is shown when the narrator describes his responsiveness. Doodle was able to respond to his name, and when he began to talk, he “talked so much that [they] all quit listening to what he said” (556). This description of Doodle’s earlier life shows his above-average intelligence because it emphasizes the extraordinary mental actions that Doodle was capable of, as opposed to what his physical well-being
In the story called Scarlet Ibis, There are two main characters, Doodle and his brother. Doodle is a cripple kid that is around 7 years of age, and his brother is about one year older than him, not to sure how old he was. Doodles only calls his brother, brother, so I am not too fond of his brothers real name. Anyway, his Brother is ashamed of having a crippled brother and will not take it, which is doodle. What Doodles brother does is pretty astonishing. He teaches him how to walk, so he won’t be ashamed of him anymore.
“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst has symbolic messages hidden in it everywhere, especially in the comparison of Doodle and the scarlet ibis these messages being to accept your capabilities and not over exert yourself. Like when we first see the bird on page 27, “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.” The bird, an exotic beauty (called that in the story), dies after making it all the way from South America to the narrator's home. This was the ibis’ fate. This relates to Doodle in a few ways but the most prominent is that they both worked hard to get somewhere. Earlier in the story, the narrator pushes his brother to learn to walk
Ever since a young age, Doodle did not have the physical strength or capability to
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Doodle was a boy destined to die from the beginning of his life. He was born with an unknown heart defect so almost everyone thought he would not live to be more than one year old. Even his own brother (the narrator) didn't think he would live long at first. One day he saw Doodle smile and then he realized that he was sane. From then on, all he tried to do was help Doodle be normal by giving him lessons on things like how to walk and swim. At the end of the story the narrator runs away from Doodle after one of the lessons because he is angry that he will not be ready for school. When Doodle is alone and far away from his brother he dies. The brother felt bad and blamed himself for Doodle's death, but it was not his fault. The narrator was not responsible for Doodle's death because he was only a young boy when Doodle was born, Doodle’s death was an accident and no one wanted him to die, and because Doodle
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