Response to the Scarlet Ibis

I feel that the stoy ended with a positive message. Or at least for me it did. Doodle was so sad all the time, and most of the things he did was sad, like say "don't leave me brother!" out in the rain. But the fact that Doodle died at the end, was kind of positive for me. He was, indirectly, put out of his misery. He would never have a normal life. He would be made fun of and/or beaten up at school for his disability. He would cry and he would be depressed at the fact that he would never be like the kids at his school. So the fact that he was killed in the end was probably for the best. Doodle however was sad, and abandoned, and died from his disease. That event cannot be sad though. It was inevitable from birth that Doodle would die. In the end,  I found the story happily ending.