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Doodle's Death In The Scarlet Ibis
For The Scarlet Ibis, I think it was the narrator’s fault that Doodle died. The narrator made Doodle run too hard, the narrator did not care for Doodle, and the narrator ran as fast as he could so he could get away from Doodle. For the first example, the narrator made Doodle run too hard, which is careless of the narrator to do so. Since Doodle has a specific condition that if he works too hard, his heart might explode or he would bleed internally and he would die. At first, people thought Doodle would not be able to even stand, but he proved them wrong and soon he could run, but if he exerts too much energy it would take a major toll on him.
For the second example, the narrator did not find Doodle appealing very much. In the story the narrator,

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