the character Doodle from the story the scarlet Ibis=)?

Question

hey u guys,my teacher told me to jot down & brainstorm about the character from the scarlet ibis and to write down his personality traits and physical apperance.I could do that myself but the problem is i forgot my book at school so if u guys cud pls lend me a hand and give me some ideas,that would be very helpful and i would appreciate it,thank you very much<3

Answer 1

Doodle is the narrator's younger brother.

He was born an invalid who could only crawl. Time passes and Doodle becomes five-hundred. The narrator then decides to teach him how to walk out of embarrassment that his brother couldn't be normal.

After weeks of practicing, Doodle learns how to walk, and the family rejoices. After a while the narrator, feeling infallible, decides to teach Doodle to walk, run, swim, climb trees,and fight like a chicken. They go to the "Old Woman Swamp" to work. His grueling work shows little progress as the deadline he sets gets closer.

Finally, after an encounter with a Scarlet Ibis dying, Doodle and the narrator set out to the swamp for one final attempt to yield results and Doodle fails. As a storm approaches they start to make their way back to the house.

Angrily, the narrator begins to walk faster than Doodle. When Doodle falls behind, the narrator runs off leaving him. Soon he calms his anger and waits for Doodle, who doesn't show up. Walking back, he finds Doodle curled up next to a bush, dead and bleeding scarlet, which was exactly like the Scarlet Ibis.

Throughout the story the narrator is only referred to as brother. Doodles encounter with the scarlet ibis is very symbolic in this story. The narrator himself says "How many miles had it [the bird] traveled to die like this, in our yard, beneath the bleeding tree?". This is almost exactly how Doodle ended up dying, with everyone thinking that he would never live right from the start, and then no one believing that he would ever be able to walk.

He had gone so far, only to die a tragic death, symbolized in the Scarlet Ibis's death. No one ever gave Doodle credit, they just thought he would die and never achieve the goals he had for himself.