Dusty Copeland
Mrs. Leguineche
English 9-7th
8 September 2015

The Scarlet Ibis

OBJECTIVE

• I'm going to show you how the characters in the story that we read have been tied in to the setting, character development, theme, and symbolism.

TEXT AUTHOR

• The story that we read is The Scarlet Ibis, and the author is James Hurst.

SETTING

• In the beginning of the book it starts out at the edge of a swamp called Old Woman Swamp:""Doodle was my brother and he was going to cling to me forever, no matter what I did so I dragged him across the burning cotton field to share with him the only I knew, Old Woman Swamp""(Hurst 596).
• The way the characters tie into this is because they go there almost every day in the story.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

• Through the story the narrator tries to teach Doodle how to walk:""He'd nod his head, and I'd say, 'Well if you don't try you'll never learn'""(Hurst 598).
• The way the characters tie into this is because the narrator is trying to teach Doodle how to walk which shows that the narrator loves him.

THEME

• In the story when Doodle and him show their parents that Doodle can sort of walk he felt pride:""Doodle told them that it was I who had taught him to walk, so everyone wanted to hug me, and I began to cry""(Hurst 598).
• The way the characters tie into this is because that the narrator felt pride by getting 50% of the credit of teaching him to walk so he wanted to keep going.

SYMBOLISM

• Towards the end of the story while Doodle and the narrator were at home because of a rain storm which brought a scarlet ibis into their backyard then it died, then while they were out in the swamp Ina boat another thunder storm came and ended up killing Doodle:""I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar. 'Doodle!' I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long long while, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.""(Hurst 604).

WORKS CITED

• Hurst, James. "Th Scarlet Ibis." The Language of Literature. 1st ed. Evanston: McDougall Little, 2006. 593-604. Print

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