In “The Scarlet Ibis,” the author uses foreshadowing to hint the upcoming death of William Armstrong, otherwise known as Doodle. “...I remember Doodle. Doodle was just about the craziest brother a boy had,” (Hurst). The piece of text shown is an example of foreshadowing because of two keywords the author used; remember and was. Remember means to recall a memory or event that occurred in the past. Was is the past tense of is. Thus meaning, Doodle is a person in the narrator’s past. Some tragic event must of occurred to make Doodle not apart of the narrator’s current life. “At that moment, the bird began to flutter, but the wings were uncoordinated, and amid much flapping and a spray of flying feathers, it tumbled down,” (Hurst). The scarlet