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“The Scarlet Ibis”

“The Scarlet Ibis”. By James Hurst. Setting. Time: 1912-1918—World War I; summer. Place: North Carolina; cotton farm; Old Woman Swamp . Point of View. “The Scarlet Ibis” is told through first person point of view. The narrator is Doodle’s older brother.

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“The Scarlet Ibis”

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  1. “The Scarlet Ibis” By James Hurst

  2. Setting Time: 1912-1918—World War I; summer Place: North Carolina; cotton farm; Old Woman Swamp.

  3. Point of View • “The Scarlet Ibis” is told through first person point of view. • The narrator is Doodle’s older brother. • The narrator tells the story using flashback. • Flashback: the author or narrator depicts events which have taken place before the present time.

  4. Conflict Man vs. Man: the struggle exists between the narrator and Doodle. James Hurst uses the war raging among “brothers” in Europe to demonstrate the conflict between the narrator and Doodle.

  5. Allusions • There are three allusions in “The Scarlet Ibis.” • Battle sites of WWI: Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, and Belleau Wood • The story of Hansel and Gretel: “It was too late to turn back, for we had both wandered too far into a net of expectations and had left no crumbs behind.” • Biblical Resurrection: “If we produced anything less than the Resurrection, [Aunt Nicey] was going to be disappointed.”

  6. Foreshadowing • Summer of 1918 was devastating: plant growth was replaced by death and decay. • Clue that Doodle’s growth will be replaced by death and decay. • The fall of the Ibis. • Clue that Doodle will fall later in the story. • Dead birds are “bad luck.”

  7. Imagery • Death imagery appears throughout “The Scarlet Ibis.” • Examples: • Bleeding tree • Rotting brown magnolia • Ironweeds grew rank • Graveyard flowers • Mahogany box • Black clouds, darkness descended

  8. Similes • Simile: a comparison of two unlike things that uses the word “like” or “as” • Examples: • “William Armstrong’s name is like putting a big tail on a small kite.” • “Promise hung about us like leaves.” • “Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket, but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible.”

  9. Metaphors • Metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as” • Examples: • “There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction.” • “Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.”

  10. Symbols • Symbol: a person, place, or thing used to represent something else. • The main symbol in the story is the scarlet ibis which represents Doodle.

  11. Theme • One of the possible themes of “The Scarlet Ibis” is pride is destructive. • Lines like the following support this theme: • “All of us must have something to be proud of.” • “Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.”

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