there are multiple parallels between the story's of the Scarlet Ibis and Simon Birch. For one the way the story is told is the same for both, in the Scarlet Ibis the narrator is telling the story about Doodle, while in Simon Birch it's less prevalent but Joe is telling the story about Simon Birch. Secondly, Simon and doodle's births are much the same as they were both born frail and weren't supposed to live more than a day, Yet they both survived by some miracle. Thirdly, The Scarlet Ibis ends with Doodle dying and Simon Birch ends with Simon dying. Finally, both stories never explicitly told you how they died exactly. Doodle was bleeding from the mouth, but why was he. Simon died in the hospital after almost drowning in freezing water, did