- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Just before school begins, in the season that Brother references at the very beginning of the story, the scarlet ibis appears in the family’s “bleeding tree” (that is, a tree that is oozing sap or other liquid). As soon as it appears, however, the ibis tries to fly away, and crashes to its death because its wings are mangled. In this way, the appearance of the ibis in the story is a use of symbolism that ties directly to Doodle, whose life is similarly cut short by disability. Thus, Brother’s quote here comes to apply just as easily to Doodle…