The story takes place in the summer of 1918 in rural North Carolina. The narrator and his brother Doodle spend much of their time playing in the Old Woman Swamp near their home. Key events, such as Doodle learning to walk and later falling ill, occur within the setting of their run-down family house surrounded by overgrown gardens. The gloomy, decaying natural setting depicted at the story's opening foreshadows the tragic events that will befall Doodle.

1. Scarlet Ibis Setting
By: James Hurst
• Ana Josa
• April Barrios
• Mary Attallah

2. Setting
The story takes place in summer of 1918 in North
Carolina
Throughout the story, the narrator and Doodle spend time
in the Old Women Swamp where they have time together
playing and they wanted to live there with their parents
when they are older.
The house has a big part in the setting of the story because
most of the important things happened there, for example:
when Doodle start walking, and he got sick and when they
saw the Scarlet Ibis dead in the yard.

3. What are some important details of setting?
At the beginning of the story the flower garden was stained with rotting
brown magnolia petals and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox.
The storm foreshadows that something bad is going to happened to
Doodle.
How does setting influence the events that take
place?
- Summer influence in the setting because Doodle and the narrator
work hard and cause that Doodle get sick
- The time that the story takes place influence with doodle’s sickness
because at that time they didn’t have any technology so the narrator
was ignorant about Doodle’s sickness.

4. What mood is created by the details of the
setting?
• Sad
• Depressed
• Emotional
• Unhappy
• Forlorn
• Sorrowful
• Upset
• Tearful

5. Does the setting foreshadows any
important events or circumstances?
Yes, first the death flowers and the
storm foreshadows the death of
Doodle.