The tone of "Scarlet Ibis" is mournful. In the first paragraph of the story the narrator states, "The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softy the names of our dead." This quotation foreshadows when Doodle dies. It sets the tone throughout the rest of the story as mournful.
S - Style
Hurst uses lots of descriptive details in "Scarlet Ibis". Hurst's states, "At that moment the bird began to flutter...amid much flapping and a spray of flying feathers...landing at our feet with a thud. Its long, graceful neck jerked twice into an S, then straightened out, and the bird was still." This quotation is very descriptive as the Scarlet Ibis fell from the tree. The death of this bird again foreshadows Doodle's death.
T - Theme
The author uses imagery through the form of personification. "It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree." This quotation gives seasons human attributes like birth and death
The authors style in "Scarlet Ibis" is a narrative. The author speaks in the first person. "He was born when I was six..." This quotation shows the author speaking in first person because he uses "I".
The theme of the novel "Scarlet Ibis" is "pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death." This quotation that the narrator states is the theme because he is in an ongoing battle with himself. The narrator feels that his pride is diminished because of his brothers disabilities.