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