(NOTE: This essay is EXTREMELY opinionated and fairly brief. If you dont share the alike views of the story, you obviously should NOT use this essay. Also, if there are either typos, I apologize. This was written as a thought stream, and I tried to catch as many typos as I could. I dont have spellcheck, by the way. Enjoy!)
The chromatic Ibis
The principal(prenominal) character is...who? Doodle or the narrator? Doodle. He changes a lot throughout the course of the story. At the beginning of the story, he basically seems to be the poster child for weakness. And yet, with the aid of his brothers constant urging, he grows to be partially normal by the near-end of the story. On the contrary, the pushing from his brother that had previously helped him ends up to be his downfall.
The title-The Scarlet Ibis. Lets think symbolically here. Scarlet...red...blood, danger, death, evil. Doodles brother mentions the knot of cruelty borne by love, much as blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction... Blood. Theres the ruby-red again. This story is red. From Doodles vermilion neck to the red leaves of the bleeding tree. Red, red, and much than RED. When Doodle tries to crawl...what color does he turn? RED. What color is he at birth? Thats right. RED. What color is his coffin? Mahogany, a tonus of red.
Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto coppice but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible. Cardinals are RED. ...beach locusts were singing in the myrtle trees. Myrtle trees...crepe myrtles...crepe myrtles are reddish. And the fact that its a Scarlet Ibis (of southerly America, E. ruber, occasionally seen in the S United States) makes it even more significant. Scarlet Ibises are obviously rare, as is Doodle. Doodle is an...
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