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- rising action
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- It's strange that all this is so clear to me, now that time has had its way. But sometimes (like right now) I sit in the cool green parlor, and I remember Doodle.Doodle was about the craziest brother a boy ever had.
- Climax
- He seemed all head, with a tiny body that was red andshriveled like an old man's. Everybody thought he was going to die.Daddy had the carpenter build a little coffin, and when he was three months old, Mama andDaddy named him William Armstrong. Such a name sounds good only on a tombstone.
- Falling Action
- Finally one day he stood alone for a few seconds. Now we knew it could be done.We decided not to tell anyone until he was actually walking. At our chosen day I brought Doodle to the door in the cart. I helped Doodle up; and when he was standing alone, I let them look. There wasn't a sound as Doodle walked slowly across the room.
- Resolution
- At that moment, the bird began to flutter. It tumbled down through the bleeding tree and landedat our feet with a thud. Its graceful neck jerked twice and then straightened out, and the bird wasstill...
- The rain came, roaring through the pines. And then, like a bursting Roman candle, a gum tree ahead of us was shattered by a bolt of lightning. When the deafening thunder had died, I heard Doodle cry out, "Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!"The knowledge that our plans had come to nothing was bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awakened. I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us.Soon I could hear his voice no more.
- Finally I went back and found him huddled beneath a bush. He was sitting on the ground, his face buried in his arms, which were resting on drawn-up knees. "Let's go, Doodle."He didn't answer so I gently lifted his head. He toppled backward onto the earth. He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red."Doodle, Doodle." There was no answer but the ropy rain. I began to weep, "Doodle!" I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis
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