ibis

Anna Rosete
DA Vinci Period 2
Mintzer

Ibis’s in the Prairie

4. The author of the short story, "the Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst makes it clear that the Ibis is a symbolic of Doodle. How is Doodle similar to the Scarlet Ibis? (not physically what about his character/ situation/ spirit)?

Answer:

Doodles name was really William Armstrong but his brother nicknamed him Doodle since he thought a name like William Armstrong "such a name sounds good only on a tombstone." Nobody expects much from someone named Doodle. But Doodles characters spirit was cogency. His brother wanted a normal brother so he wanted Doodle to be like the other kids that walk, run, swim, climb trees and fight. He knew that Doodle could do all that if he tried hard enough. But Doodle was a rare boy, just like the Scarlet Ibis. The Ibis landed in North Carolina and it origialy comes from flordia or South Africa. The Scarlet Ibis must have flown a long way to end up dying there. Which shows that the Ibis traveled a long way just how Doodle did by trying his hardest in whatever his brother told him to do. Doodle dies alone in the rain from heart failure from going over the limit of how far they need to go, just like the ibis. They got pushed to hard to a situation that only lead them to death.

Aunt Nicey stated that "dead birds are bad luck, ecpecaily dead ones."

When James Hurst writes "The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted through our house, speaking softly the names of our dead" it shows that someone is going to die. Doodle and the Ibis died on the same day. Doodle's neck, "red with blood, and legs, thin and stiffly jointed," compared him strongly to the ibis.

But since Doodle dies he no longer has to be an embarrassment to his brother.