The Scarlet Ibis
Storyboard Text
- 'Doodle was about the craziest brother a boy ever had. Doodle was born when I was seven and was, from the start, a disappointment. He seemed all head, with a tiny body that was red andshriveled like an old man's.Everybody thought he was going to die.'
- 'Doodle was five years old when I turned 13. I was embarrassed at having a brother of that agewho couldn't walk, so I set out to teach him. We were down in Old Woman Swamp. "I'm going to teach you to walk, Doodle," I said.'
- 'I helped Doodle up; and when he was standing alone, I let them look.There wasn't a sound as Doodle walked slowly across the room and sat down at the table. Then Mama began to cry and ran over to him, hugging him and kissing him. Daddy hugged him, too. Doodle told them it was I who had taught him to walk, so they wanted to hug me, and I began to cry.'
- 'The rain came, roaring through the pines. And then, like a bursting Roman candle, a gum treeahead of us was shattered by a bolt of lightning. When the deafening thunder had died, I heard Doodle cry out, "Brother, Brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!" '
- 'The knowledge that our plans had come to nothing was bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awakened. 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.'
- ' "Doodle, Doodle." There was no answer but the ropy rain. I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar. "Doodle!" I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above him. For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis.'
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created