Scarlet Ibis Questions P.345
B. The narrator repeats the word bleeding to mean red. What other associations
are triggered by color red?
C. There is a shift in voice and tone of the adult looking back in time to that of a
child living at the present. What do you notice between first and second
paragraph?
E. What 2 things (Marquisette curtains billowed out rustling like palmetto fronds)
are compared in this simile? P.345 1st paragraph 1st column
F. Read the inference section – P. 345 answer question.
G. What do you think about brother calling him Doodle as being kind?
P.346
A. What can you infer based on Doodles’s reaction to the swamp? 1st
Paragraph 1st column
B.1 How would this passage differ if it were told by an omniscient narrator?1st
column 3rd paragraph
C1. In this episode, the narrator is cruel to his brother, and Doodle responds
with fear. Why is Doodle so afraid of being left? 1st paragraph 2nd column
D1. What do you think the narrator means by this statement? P.347
F1. Identify the symbols of hope.
H1. Do you think the narrator judges himself too harshly?