In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” the author uses the bird as a symbol for doodle to foreshadow what's going to happen at the end. When they first see the bird the dad says “”It looks tiered,” daddy added. “Or maybe evan sick”” When the narrator is teaching doodle to run he says “I purposely walked fast, and although he kept up,his face turned red”. This relates the two through being tired and worn out. The bird had flown from florida to North carolina and doodle was pushing himself harder than ever before to meet his goal and was only getting a minuscule amount of sleep. When the bird died “A white veil came over the eyes” and when doodle was born “he was born in a caul” or a thin white casing around his head from being born prematurely.
