I'll give you a few of these pieces, and maybe another editor can finish out the information you need.
The entire story is a flashback. The narrator is Doodle's brother and he begins narrating the story as an older man. While wandering the grounds where he grew up, he has a flashback about his brother Doodle.
It is told from a first person point of view. The narrator is part of the story and tells it using the word 'I'.
A couple instances of direct characterization about the narrator include times when he confessed his own flaws calling himself mean and embarrassed.
There is inside me (and with sadness I have seen it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love. And at times I was mean to Doodle.
I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn't walk, so I set out to teach him.
I would classifying the mood or tone as disappointing, depressing, or dark. The references to red and black colors, the references to death, and the plot being about a kid who was ultimately going to die builds a sad and melancoly tone hard to classify as anything else.
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