The Scarlet Ibis

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The Scarlet Ibis
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Symbolism

• Use of an object to stand for more than itself
• Symbol has its own meaning, but also reps
  abstract ideas

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Foreshadowing

• Authors use of clues to suggest events that will
  occur later in story

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• Foreshadowing
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• These all foreshadow _____

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• Doodles birth
• Born physically disabled (caught in caul almost
  suffocated)
• Dad had coffin built for him ? everyone expected
  him to die
• Finally named after 3 months (name only sounds
  good on a tombstone)

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• Narrator (Brother) gives D his nickname starts
  crawling late, so he moves around like a bug ? B
  names him after a doodlebug
• B calls this kind no one expects much from D
  (lowered expectations)

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• There is w/in me a knot of cruelty born by the
  stream of love
• B cruel to D
• tries to ditch him/leave him behind
• accidentally turns Ds go-cart over w/ D inside
• forced D to touch his own coffin
• threatened to leave D alone in loft

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• Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed
  that bears two vines, life and death.
• B embarrassed that D cant walk (not normal)
  ? he decides to teach D to walk
• B forces D to learn to stand, then to walk ? D
  does, but B only taught him for a selfish reason
  (his pride)

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• Do you want to be different from everybody else
  when you start school?
• Bs motivation pride ? he wants a normal
  brother

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• Death of the Ibis
• Blown off course by storm
• Belongs in tropics
• Dies of exhaustion after straining against storm
• Falls out of tree ? D buries it, seems most
  affected by it

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• Death of Doodle
• Bs cruelty returns ? both he D realize D has
  failed, cant handle being normal
• B pushes D more more, then runs off leaves
  him alone in rain
• general rule in lit, storms foreshadowing
  something TRAGIC

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• After running, B gets over anger, returns to find
  D sitting under red nightshade bush
• D covered in blood (scarlet) falls on ground
  under RED bush body long, slim, shaped like
  Sjust like _____
• B realizes what he has done how he truly feels
  when _____.