Doodle's Guilty

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I believe that the narrator is guilty of Doodle’s death. There are a lot of excellent reasons to be against me. Yes, he taught Doodle how to walk, and yes he believed in Doodle. It states this in the text, “so I set out to teach him.”(2) ,and also, “I'm not going to hurt you. I'm going to teach you to walk." I heaved. However, when you go back to see the reason he did it, it was all because he was embarrassed of him. It states on page three, “They did not know that I did it for myself, that pride,”(3) The narrator did encourage him, but he was just thinking of himself. There are other reasons to support that he is guilty. The narrator would purposely do things to get him to work for what he wanted; he did not care how Doodle felt about it. In the text it says, “ I purposely walked faster, and although he kept up, his face turned red and his eyes became glazed. Once, he could go no further, so he collapsed on the ground and began to cry.”(4) The narrator was trying so hard to get him to work for it because he couldn’t appreciate what he had and be happy for Doodle. The narrator wanted to help Doodle, and he wanted to teach him new things so he could improve. It says this in the text on page four, “ I prepared a terrific development program for him, unknown to Mama and Daddy, of course. I would …show more content…
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