Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” doodle was frightened of being left. “don’t go leave me, brother,” he cried, and he leaned toward the coffin. his hand, trembling, reached out, and when he touched the casket he screamed. a screech owl flapped out of the box into our faces, scaring us and covering us with paris green. doodle was paralyzed, so i put him on my shoulder and carried him down the ladder, and even when we were outside in the bright sunshine, he clung to me, crying, “don’t leave me. don’t leave me.” what do doodle’s repeated pleas of “don’t leave me” foreshadow? once the narrator returns to school, he leaves doodle at home and forgets all of his plans to him. after doodle refuses to touch the casket, the narrator refuses to doodle and leaves him alone in the loft. later in the story, the narrator races ahead and leaves doodle to struggle behind during a terrible storm. when doodle struggles to learn to walk, the narrator leaves and doodle is left sitting alone in old woman swamp. which answer choice

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what is the first step in analyzing or preparing a summary for a piece of literature?

c) describe the setting!

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the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.