20 points for all 4 questions
1) what does the color red symbolize in "the scarlet ibis?
2) what does the description of seasons symbolize in "the scarlet ibis?
3) what does the grindstone symbolize in "the scarlet ibis?
4) how does the author, directly and indirectly, characterize the narrator and doodle?

There are many signs of symbolism in this story, such as the color red and how the Scarlet Ibis is symbolic to Doodle. First of all, the color red symbolizes blood, danger and death. Doodle's brother mentions the "knot of cruelty born by love, much as blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction..."(172).May 14, 2005

Explanation:

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.