Scarlet Ibis
Storyboard Text
- "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
- Tone
- Word Choice
- Nate Hipwell, Period 8
- Imagery
- The tone the author used is sad and sorrowful. Doodle's father had a coffin built for him. Also, the brother was sad and disappointed that he might have a brother that was not "all there".
- Style
- Graveyard flowers, going to die, and the last paragraph using "I began to weep" and "tear-blurred" to demonstrate sorrow.
- Theme
- "It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead ..." and "summer had long since fled..."
- The author uses a descriptive style in describing the oriole nest as rocking like an empty cradle and describing the ibis as a broken vase of red flowers.
- The older brother tells the story in the past tense of the sadness of losing his little brother at a young age. He compares his little brother to the lost and dying scarlet ibis.
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