In the story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst the Narrator is responsible for Doodle’s death, even if it wasn’t deliberate. A detail from the story is “that streak of cruelty within me awakened. I ran as fast as I could leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us”(pg.28). When this happens in the story the narrator is spiteful and in the moment he decides to run away and leave DOodle behind. THis ultimately causes Doodle to die because of his weak heart and poor health. This is the if not most obvious reason as to why the narrator is responsible for Doodle’s death. If he hadn’t been cruel in that moment and not tried to run away from Doodle, then it’s extremely likely that Doodle wouldn’t have died. More details from the story are
In “The Scarlet Ibis," Doodle had the same right to live as his family did. I believe that even though Doodle was destined to die” he should have been able to live the short life he had.
physical inabilities, so he decides to teach him to walk. He takes Doodle outside and
*the narrator is looking back on what he has once witnessed long ago, and it's haunting him, makes him feel guilty and ashamed.
Humans are never perfect, and their emotions often conflict with their logic. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, the narrator receives a physically disabled brother, Doodle, thus trains Doodle physically so that he could live a normal life. Throughout the story, the narrator’s actions and thoughts reveals his true personalities to the audience as he slowly narrates the story of himself and his scarlet ibis, Doodle, whose existence he dreaded. In the story written by James Hurst, pride, love, and cruelty, these conflicting character traits all exists in Doodle’s brother. And the most severe of all, pride.
`The first piece of evidence that can be held against the narrator is the fact that he made Doodle touch his own coffin. This has nothing to do with Doodle’s death but does show how the narrator looked at Doodle and shows how he thought he could treat him. When Doodle was a child, the whole family thought he was going to die because of his weak heart. Just crawling was putting too much stress on his heart. The family was so sure he was going to die that they even made him a coffin. But Doodle didn’t die at that point in time. The family hid the coffin away. The brother decided that he was going to threaten Doodle into touching it. SInce Doodle couldn’t walk, the brother took him up there and threatened to leave
Doodle’s brother guilty or innocent you ask? Well let see here hmmm… GUILTY, GUILTY, and umm oh yea GUILTY! I mean helllloooo he's so guilty you couldn't even give evidence that he's not , I mean sure he might have said he loved his brother but would someone who loves their brother say that they were going to kill him? Let me teach you something I call it “Lying” and “lying” is where someone says one thing but never does it, I wonder where you might find that… oh yea DOODLE’S BROTHER. By now you’re probably saying something like smart like “Oh yea then he could oh lied about killing his brother than huu.” but sorry for I have evidence to prove that that wasn't a lie.
Conflict is an important part of any short story. The short story, “On the Sidewalk Bleeding,” contains three major conflicts: man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. himself. In this essay, I intend to explain, prove, and analyze these three struggles.
Although the narrator of the story contributes to Doodle's death, the narrator actually enhanced Doodle's short life helping him live more than he helps him die. Additionally the narrator always knows that Doodle can act more like a normal boy, than as a sick person that was about to die. In "Scarlet Ibis" the narrator is not responsible for Doodles death.
The story, written roughly 6 years before Poe died, is one of the more prominent examples of an unreliable narrator within Poe’s collection. The reader, in the beginning of the story, is told by the narrator himself that he is thought to be an unreliable narrator, by way of his assumed mental instability.
...being so ugly. He cannot hide from the reality. He doesn’t realize what a catastrophe he has created and so he pays the price of death to William and Justine.
Doodle’s health is not good and you can see that in this piece of text. (Topic Sentence) The author writes, “He didn’t answer so I placed my hand on his forehead and lifted his head. Limply, he fell backwards onto the Earth. He had been bleeding from his mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt was stained brilliant red.”(172)(Textual support- 5). Doodle is harmed and it’s because his brother’s pride got in the way of his health and well being. (Commentary)
1. Chapter 3, page 5, #3: “A little fog hung over the river so that as I neared it I felt myself becoming isolated from everything except the river and the few trees beside it. The wind was blowing more steadily here, and I was beginning to feel cold.”
Besides the ending of story, we can also figure out the contradiction what the narrator said from the front depiction. Above all, in the first paragragh, the narrator told us he was “very, very dreadfully nervous”, and it was the “disease” that had sharpened his senses. Moreover, this “disease” had a serious impact on his sense of hearing.
The narrator wrestles with conflicting feelings of responsibility to the old man and feelings of ridding his life of the man's "Evil Eye" (34). Although afflicted with overriding fear and derangement, the narrator still acts with quasi-allegiance toward the old man; however, his kindness may stem more from protecting himself from suspicion of watching the old man every night than from genuine compassion for the old man.
The day after Doodle died, it was a cold, rainy night. I was curled up in the corner of my room shivering, wishing I could just have one more chance to have my crippled brother back. After a couple hours of sad depression, I slowly stood up and grabbed my old, wrinkled navy blue jacket and walked out of my room. I walked down the creaking stairs and once I reached the bottom of the stairs, I told my mom that I'm going to take a walk to get some fresh air; She took a quick glance at me from the ragged couch and just layed back into the couch, so I walked out the brown wooden door.