In “The Scarlet Ibis”, the narrator recalls the life of his remarkable brother, Doodle. Set in the South in the early 1900’s, a young boy named William Armstrong is born. From the beginning, the doctors did not believe he would survive; he suffered from a small heart, among other birth defects, leaving him physically weak. However, when he smiled at his brother, and eventually learned to crawl, the family was given hope that "Doodle" might be okay.
As Doodle got older, he still could not walk, so…
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