B. Answer each of the following questions completely and thoroughly. Notice there are
several parts to some questions.
1. What unanswered questions is the reader left with upon finishing the story?
2. How do you feel about the narrator's behavior at the end of the story?
Is he responsible for Doodle's death? Could he be partially responsible?
3. Is the narrator's emotion at the very end sorrow, guilt, or something else? Explain.
.4. By the end of the story, whom do you pity more-the narrator or Doodle? Why?
5. What does the narrator realize at the story's end, as he cradles his brother's little
body?
6.In the last sentence, the narrator calls his brother his "fallen scarlet ibis." What does
he mean? In what ways could the ibis be a symbol for Doodle?