The Scarlet Ibis
Can you find as many things, images, ideas that are red ?
To get us ready for the main symbol in the story, the author “paints” his story red.
To get us ready for the main symbol in the story, the author “paints” his story red.
bleeding tree
Trembling, he'd push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple....
much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle.
Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible.
He was looking up into the bleeding tree. "It's a great big red bird!" he called.
........ a chicken, with scarlet feathers and long legs, was perched precariously.
"It's a scarlet ibis," he said.....
He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red.
He lay very awkwardly, with his head thrown far back, making his vermilion neck appear unusually long and slim.
The Scarlet Ibis