Personification In The Scarlet Ibis

In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” written by James Hurst, the story demonstrates the motif of the bird’s death, the short story communicates the Narrator as regret by showing the death of innocence, for example, in the beginning of the story, the narrator states “if an oriole sings in the elm, it’s songs seem to die in the leaves, a silvery dust”. The brother feels responsible for what happened to Doodle, which he should. The brother expected too much from Doodle, the family had to be fragile with him a but when the brother’s body is ignited with regret as the Narrator states “Doodle!” I screamed above the pounding storm, and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long, long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain”. …show more content…
Hurst uses personification as the narrator creates a pattern of reminiscence, it states "It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The flower garden was strained with rotting brown magnolia petals and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple