The Scarlet Ibis
...demonic to Doodle too, making Doodle touch his own coffin, flipping him over in his go-cart, pushing him beyond his physical limit, and ultimately, causing Doodle’s untimely death. Even with the unbreakable bond the two of them share, the brother realizes that there is “a knot of cruelty (bore) by the stream of love” (3). This metaphor shows how the callousness towards Doodle is intertwined with the love and how love can lead to callousness. Pride, a huge culprit of this feeling, pushes the brother to teach Doodle to walk in the first place, for he was ashamed of having an invalid brother. Later on, pride refuses to allow the brother to give up on the hopeless training, forcing him to push Doodle to accomplish impossible tasks. A resentment of failur...