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Doodle gets shown his coffin by the narrator and the narrator thinks nothing of it because he didn't die when everyone said he would've died, but the narrator showed him the coffin because he wasn't going to die anytime soon.

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The narrator couldn't stop doodles condition because that's the way he was born.

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The narrator didn't like being with his brother due to his condition.

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A second theme in "The Scarlet Ibis" is to be nice to one another before time runs out

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One theme in "The Scarlet Ibis" is to never take loved ones for granted. The narrator took his little brother for granted because he was disabled and well cared for and thought nothing was ever gonna happen due to him living past the age that was expected.

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The dead scarlet ibis foreshadows the death of doodle because doodle is different and doodle has a disability. It shows at the end how doodle "toppled backward onto earth" just like the scarlet ibis did due to his disability also.

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During the story we learn doodle is the disabled younger brother of the narrator. The parents believed that doodle was to not live very long due to his condition. We learn Doodle looks up to his brother in a kind way through his thoughts and his speech, feeling that he can tell his brother many things, but does feel hurt with some of the narrators actions. "When I made him touch the casket he screamed"

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During the story, we learn that the older brother is the main character of this story. We learn only the way he feels and sees his brother and the world. We learn that the narrator doesn't like the way his little brother doodle is different than others."I was embarrassed of having a brother of that age who couldn't walk, so I set out to teach him."

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"I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying,  sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis."

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"He toppled" shows that when he was sitting on the floor and the Narrator nudged his head back, he fell completely backwards like a lifeless body, or like a domino.

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The narrator wants his brother to be normal and only taught his brother how to walk so he would be seen as normal. The narrator knows he's mean to his brother and he does love his brother but he never shows it. Once his brother died he than realizes that leaving his brother was his fault and knowing that he was gone after being mean to him was also his fault due to never listening to his brother and just caring for himself. "I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us. Soon I could hear his voice no more." The brother leaves doodle and then realizes if doodle was with him, he wouldn't have died.

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In "The Scarlet Ibis" the narrator, brother of Doodle, is talking about how his brother would never live a normal life and would die and a few months for being born small and frill. After the narrator teaches doodle to walk, run, and play, the Armstrong family develop hope in Doodles future. As the Doodle and the narrator grow older, they come across a bird, a scarlet ibis, dead on their front lawn. Doodle and the older brother agree to bury the bird for which he shouldn't be seen dead like that. The brothers take the bird while there is a storm approaching. Lightning strikes and hard rains develop. The narrator leaves his brother behind then waits for him to catch up. There is a sound of lightning and the narrator goes back for Doodle.The older brother sees Doodle on the floor, and the story ends with Doodle dead as he holds the dead bird, and the narrator sheltering his "fallen scarlet ibis".

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Doodle(William Armstrong)
Narrator(Older brother of Doodle.