As the cutting crew says in one of their songs, “you just died in my arms tonight” and if society went through so much trouble and had so much pride that a person’s own brother died in your arms as the narrator did, I’d imagine the guilt would never leave one’s conscience. A boy named Doodle was born disabled. His brother, the narrator teaches him to walk out of embarrassment.
The pride of the narrator became negative as it took him over causing him to push his brother too far. He continued to make Doodle do more and more activities varying in difficulty as time went on. Then eventually he pushed him to run and it exceeded Doodle’s ability, when the young disabled boy is caught in a large storm that kills him because he couldn’t keep up. In the Scarlet Ibis, a dramatic fictional short story, by James Hurst, the narrator had negative pride when he was embarrassed of his brother, reminded Doodle he should be dead and left him to die in the storm, all out of confidence and shame. In this story the narrator is too confident and helps his brother because he is ashamed of him.
He taught Doodle to walk and for all the wrong reasons. In fact he felt guilty during the demonstration to his parents that he had helped Doodle learn how to walk because he only knew what he’d done. “They did not know that I did it for myself that pride, whose slaves I was spoke to me louder than all their voices, and that doodle walked only because I was ashamed of having a crippled brother”, this is a quote from the story that clearly shows the guilt and shame the narrator felt toward the reason he taught Doodle to walk. However by the narrator’s knowledge of the issue and the fact that Doodle had walked fine he pushed him to continue doing more activities.
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If he would have understood what he was doing is for the wrong reasons he would not have this problem. As much as the narrator was embarrassed of his brother and wanted a non-crippled brother he even helped Doodle remind himself he should be dead. In the story brother was very set and making a man out of Doodle, so to speak, and was angry when he failed. As a result he acted frustrated and angry with the entire situation. And the fact that he didn’t care about Doodles feelings enough to remind him that he was supposed to die really shows that. “Doodle had learned to walk well and his go-cart was put up in the barn loft (it is still there) beside his little mahogany coffin”.
He had reminded Doodle that he should be dead by making sure he saw his small coffin after the go cart was put next to it. The narrator was dead set on teaching Doodle and he wasn’t going to stop. After he had reminded doodle he should be dead, he took him through many activities and did a large amount of training which all nearly failed. The narrator was frustrated that he could not meet his deadline to teach Doodle how to run, climb, fight, and walk. This was where the frustration began. The narrator decided to run to get his brother to come as well but he couldn’t keep up and died in the storm. “Brother, Brother, don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!”
Even after hearing this, the narrator continued to proceed running. This shows the actual dedication and cruelty of the narrator and how much his pride had taken over his conscience. He felt so guilty after that he held his young, disabled, brother in his arms and cried. In the Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, when the narrator was embarrassed of his brother, reminded Doodle he should be dead, and left him in the storm, his pride was depicted negatively. The narrator had done some shallow things involving his disabled brother. He taught him to walk and do other activities due to embarrassment from Doodle, his crippled brother. In the end he pushes him too hard to the point of an unfortunate death. Now the reader should care about what this essay is about and the story because it states a very important life lesson about pride to love all no matter how they are, we are all equal.
