What makes a person special? Everyone has something about them that makes them unique. People are different in many ways and the most beautiful people in the world are the ones who know they are different and do not look at it in a negative light, but a positive one. In this short story, The Scarlet Ibis, by James Hurst, the character Doodle was portrayed as persevering, imaginative, and saint like. In the short story the author described Doodle as persevering, imaginative, and saint like. Hurst shows that Doodle is persevering by stating in the story, “When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to move straining himself terribly. The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn’t. Trembling, he’d push himself up, turning red first, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like a worn-out doll”(Hurst 464). This is showing that even as an adolescent in unbearable pain, that should have killed him, he still fought to make sure that he could get up on his own. He understood that he has difficulties and hardships, but works through them so maybe one day his problems will be less challenging and less frequent. The author depicted Doodle as imaginative by articulating, “ My lies were scary, involved, and usually pointless, but Doodle’s were …show more content…
His eyes were round with wonder as he gazed about him, and his little hands began to stroke the rubber grass. Then he began to cry. “’For heaven’s sake what’s the matter?”’ I asked, annoyed. “’It’s so pretty”’ he said “’So pretty, pretty, pretty”’(Hurst 466). This piece of commentary depicts that Doodle had a soft spot for nature and all things beautiful. For a child to burst into tears because of something they thought as beautiful is a big deal and shows how mature and understanding of the world they can actually