The color red is highly symbolic in James Hurst's short
story "The Scarlet Ibis." In addition to the "red, dead bird" of the title, the color is
mentioned in reference to blood; Doodle's "red" tiny body; a cardinal; and the bleeding
tree. Other references to the colors you
requested:
BLUE. Doodle's
"eyes popped round like two blue
buttons."
WHITE. Doodle's
house is "gleaming white"; cotton is mentioned several times; and Doodle's brother
pictured the two together as "old men, white-haired, him with a long white
beard."
GREEN.
Doodle's home has a "green-draped parlor," and nature's color is mentioned in the
woods, fern, pines, grass and the "green dimness where the palmetto fronds
whispered."
GOLD. In one of
Doodle's stories, he tells of a boy named Peter who walks through sunflowers in his
"golden robe"; there is the "bright sunshine"; a "pot of gold"; and the "yellow cast of
autumn."
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