Hurst uses many foreshadowing to imply the brother Doodle’s death and the bad ending of this short story.In the first paragraph,the first sentence “It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree” uses the season’s changing to imply that Doodle will die before autumn.The last sentence “The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softly the names of our dead”is another foreshadowing of it.And his name William Armstrong ,“which is like tying a big tail on a small kite. Such a name sounds good only on a tombstone” is absolutely the hint that he will die.Other important foreshadowings are mainly about the the scarlet ibis.For example,the arrival of the red bird and its death,and it’s bad luck gives it a red death, “it tumbled down, bumping through the limbs of the bleeding tree …death did not mar its grace, for it lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers”, which imply the way of Doodle’s death,because at the end of the story, the sentence “He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red”shows us the similarity between the death of the scarlet ibis and Doodle. The symbols in the short story are also important to help the author illustrate the theme of it.The scarlet ibis which stands for Doole,is one of these symbols.They have some similarities.For example,The scarlet ibis is small and fragile,which is just like Doole.And the way how they dead is also similar.The color,red,is a big symbol in the short story.There is lots of red that we can found in the story.For example, the scarlet ibis itself is red,the “bleeding tree” makes us think of the color red and when Doodle were born ,his body is red.As for his death,from the line “He