Doodle

The narrator

Aunty Nicey

Hope

Alliteration - "We were down in Old Woman Swamp and it was spring and the sick-sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful song."

Simile-"Keeping a nice secret is very hard to do, like holding your breath."

Hyperbole- "We danced together quite well until she came down on my big toe with her brogans, hurting me so badly, I thought I was crippled for life."

Oxymoron- "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing"

The narrator thinks that Doodle will find it amusing.

He intends to shut Doodle up inside the coffin as a joke.

He has a cruel streak that surfaces occasionally.

He wants to impress on Doodle how surprised they all were that Doodle survived.

". . . I put him on his feet at least a hundred times each afternoon."

"And before I'll help you down from the loft, you're going to have to touch it."

"Finally I could see I was licked. Doodle was my brother and he was going to cling to me forever."

"There wasn't a sound as Doodle walked slowly across the room and sat down at his place at the table."

"At that moment the bird began to flutter, but the wings were uncoordinated . . ."

"Its long, graceful neck jerked twice into an S, then it straightened out, and the bird was still."

"Even death did not mar its grace, for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers . . ."

"For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain."

"Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible."

"Then when the slanted rays of the sun burned orange in the tops of the pines, we'd drop our jewels into the stream and watch them float away toward the sea."

"But sometimes (like right now), as I sit in the cool, green-draped parlor, the grindstone begins to turn, and time with all its changes is ground away . . ."

". . . The peacock spread his magnificent tail, enfolding the boy gently like a closing go-to-sleep flower, burying him in the gloriously iridescent, rustling vortex."

To appreciate a brother or sister for who they are.

To teach someone how to do something.

To tease a brother or sister.

To be cruel when you get upset.

1 year old

2 years old

4 years old

5 years old

World War I

World War II