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Scarlet Ibis By James Hurst: Summary
The scarlet ibis is an amazing t story written by James Hurst . A story written back in the day.it will have you confused but intrigued. In this story there are two characters there is the brother he talks about how much he wanted a younger brother, in the beginning, he was happy when his parents told him he was going to have a baby brother but then fate had a different choice for brother that was the story begins. Doodle was born everyone thought he was going to die no one believed he was going to live but there aunt she helped deliver him no one believed he was going to live because he was born with a disease known as hydrocephalus which meant he couldn't move anything but his head . his own brother was so disappointed that he had a brother
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