1. SCARLET IBIS NOTES

2. POINT OF VIEW- 1ST PERSON LIMITED NARRATOR’S NAME ISN’T GIVEN, JUST “BROTHER”, REINFORCES THAT THE STORY FOCUSES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BROTHERS

3. THEMES PARADOX OF TERRIBLE BEAUTY= FRONT OF HIS SHIRT WAS STAINED A BRILLIANT RED, WHEN DEAD DOODLE AND THE BIRD ARE “FRAGILE,” “GRACEFUL,” MIXED EMOTIONS= NARRATOR’S LOVE/CRUELTY TOWARDS DOODLE, NARRATOR’S PRIDE/SHAME “THERE IS WITHIN ME A KNOT OF CRUELTY BORN BY A STREAM OF LOVE,” “I DID NOT KNOW THEN THAT PRIDE IS A WONDERFUL, TERRIBLE THING, A SEED THAT BEARS TWO VINES, LIFE AND DEATH”

4. FORESHADOWING- “WILLIAM ARMSTRONG…SUCH A NAME SOUNDS GOOD ONLY ON A TOMBSTONE”; DOODLE’S COFFIN, THE DEATH OF THE IBIS; THE STORM

5. TONE/MOOD POIGNANT, PENSIVE, SOMBER, REGRETFUL, SOMETIMES NOSTALGIC (DESCRIPTION OF SETTING, SUBDUED IMAGERY, NARRATOR’S COMMENTS, FINAL EVENTS OF STORY)

6. AUTHOR’S STYLE USE OF IMAGERY SYMBOLISM TOLD AS FLASHBACKS ATTENTION-GETTING OPENING/CLOSING LINES- “ I LAY THERE CRYING, SHELTERING MY FALLEN SCARLET IBIS FROM THE HERESY OF RAIN”

7. SYMBOLISM- SCARLET IBIS- SYMBOL FOR DOODLE, FOR FRAGILE BEAUTY, FOR DEATH SWAMP – SYMBOL FOR THE BROTHERS’ LOVE, BOND WEATHER- SYMBOL FOR EMOTIONS/UPHEAVAL IN CHARACTERS’ LIVES THE COLOR RED-ASSOCIATED WITH DOODLE, THE IBIS, SYMBOLIZES EXOTIC BEAUTY, DEATH DOODLE’S COFFIN-SYMBOL FOR DEATH DOODLE’S CART- HIS DEPENDENCE/INDEPENDENCE