What does the imagery in the passage show about
Doodle?
He has many talents, including singing and
gardening.
Daddy, Mama, and I went back to the dining-room table,
but we watched Doodle through the open door. He took
out a piece of string from his pocket and, without
touching the ibis, looped one end around its neck. Slowly,
while singing softly "Shall We Gather at the River," he
carried the bird around to the front yard and dug a hole
in the flower garden, next to the petunia bed. Now we
were watching him through the front window, but he
didn't know it. His awkwardness at digging the hole with
a shovel whose handle was twice as long as he was made
us laugh, and we covered our mouths with our hands so
he wouldn't hear.
-"The Scarlet Ibis,"
James Hurst
O He thinks that the scene is funny and tries not to
laugh.
O He is afraid that he will catch a disease from the
bird.
He cares about giving the bird a proper burial.
