The Scarlet Ibis

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The Scarlet Ibis

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The Scarlet IbisCHARACTERIZATION

• Main CharactersDoodle and his
• older brother
• Protagonistolder brother/narrator of
• story
• AntagonistDoodle (his physical limitations)

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The Scarlet IbisPLOT

• ExpositionDoodle was born disabled.
• Everyone expected him to
• die.
• Rising ActionDoodle is now 5 years old and will
  be starting school. His brother teaches him to
  walk and has decided to teach him to run, to row,
  to swim, to climb trees, and to fight.

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The Scarlet IbisPLOT

• ClimaxDoodle suffers a fatal heart
• attack.
• Falling ActionDoodles brother cries
• when he realizes Doodle
• is dead.

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The Scarlet IbisPLOT

• ResolutionNarrator feels guilty about
  
• Doodles death.

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The Scarlet IbisCONFLICT

• External ConflictDoodles limitations
• v. his brothers
• expectations

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The Scarlet IbisCONFLICT

• Internal Conflictolder brothers
• (narrators)
  inability
• to accept Doodles
• differences
• older brother
• dealing with his own
• cruelty

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The Scarlet Ibis

• ForeshadowingDead birds is bad
• luck . . . Specially
  red
• dead birds.
• Moodrevealed in the very first
• paragraph of the story, with
• words like dead, bleeding tree,
• stained, rotting, and graveyard

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The Scarlet Ibis

• Point of viewfirst person
• Settinglate summer/early autumn 1918
• rural area near Old Woman
• Swamp
• coastal North Carolina

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The Scarlet Ibis

• SymbolismThe color red represents
• blood, or courage, or
• tragedy.
• There is great similarity
• between Doodle and the
• scarlet ibis.

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The Scarlet Ibis

• ThemePeople can be cruel to those
• they love.