The Scarlet Ibis
"Brother, Brother don't leave me! Don't leave me!"
This story has concrete foreshadowing.....
Concrete foreshadowing is objects, people, places, colors, and events. Are not obvious until you look back into the story.
"The last graveyard flower were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field, and through every room of our house, speaking softly the names of our dead."
This quote in the story foreshadows the death of doodle.
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what type of character is doodle?
Doodle is a Direct character, because it tells you that doodle is a boy that has disablities since he was little.
quote in the story that shows doodle's disabilities "He seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man's. "
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The Scarlet Ibis's plot
Exposition/ Rising Action
Exposition: Find out the characters, the setting, and the conflict
Rising Action: A building of interest or suspense occurs.
Big brother - Doodle - Family
Rising action: Doodle has a Disabilities to do anything. Big brother teaches Doodle how to walk, and how to swim. A Scarlet Ibis dies in front of the house.
Climax
Climax: Turning point, main character usually faces the conflict, main character will change mental, emotional, or moral.
Big brother takes Doodle to the Old Woman Swamp To train more, but Doodle is tired. While they were training a storm comes, and big brother begins to run, and leave Doodle behind in the storm.
Falling Action/ Resolution
Falling action: All loose ends tied up. The conflict, and climax are taken care of.
. Big brothers stops, and goes back to find Doodle. He calls Doodles name, but there wasn't no answer, so he keeps looking around to find Doodle.
Resolution: The story comes to a reasonable ending.
Then he finds Doodle near a tree and he notice that Doodle wouldn't answer him so when he pushes him back, and he sees that Doodle died.
Setting of the story
where is this story taken place?
Setting: when, and where a story takes place.
This story takes place in North Carolina, near the beach. Also it tell you a specific place where they were always training " After that day doodle, and I often went down into Old Woman Swamp"
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