The Scarlet Ibis In The Scarlet Ibis, James Hurst uses the scarlet ibis, the coffin, and the color red, as symbols to to help understand different ideas that are a little harder to comprehend on your own. In The Scarlet Ibis, the narrator tells a flashback story of him and his brother at young age. In the story the narrator talks about how he tried to make his physically handicapped brother be normal like him. A symbol is anything that stands for or represents something else.
The scarlet ibis is a big symbol in the story from his color to his physical form. The bird was stuck in the tree in the front yard, and out of nowhere the scarlet ibis dies in front of everybody. The bird was a symbol of death and bad luck. The red on
The scarlet ibis is a big symbol in the story from his color to his physical form. The bird was stuck in the tree in the front yard, and out of nowhere the scarlet ibis dies in front of everybody. The bird was a symbol of death and bad luck. The red on