Read the excerpt from "The Scarlet Ibis."
What do Doodle's repeated pleas of "Don't leave me"
Doodle was frightened of being left. "Don't go leave me,
foreshadow?
Brother," he cried, and he leaned toward the coffin. His
• Once the narrator returns to school, he leaves Doodle
hand, trembling, reached out, and when he touched the
casket he screamed. A screech owl flapped out of the
at home and forgets all of his plans to help him.
box into our faces, scaring us and covering us with Paris
• After Doodle refuses to touch the casket, the narrator
green. Doodle was paralyzed, so l put him on my
refuses to help Doodle and leaves him alone in the
shoulder and carried him down the ladder, and even
loft.
when we were outside in the bright sunshine, he clung to
• Later in the story, the narrator races ahead and
me, crying, "Don't leave me. Don't leave me."
leaves Doodle to struggle behind during a terrible
storm.
• When Doodle struggles to learn to walk, the narrator
leaves and Doodle is left sitting alone in Old Woman
Swamp.
