college ready english 9 he scarlet ibis\ annotations and dialectical journals it was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so i began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow. however, one afternoon as i watched him, my head poked between the iron posts of the foot of the bed, he looked straight at me and grinned. i skipped through the rooms, down the echoing halls, shouting, \mama, he smiled. he’s all there! he’s all there!\ and he was. when he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to move himself, straining terribly. the doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn’t. trembling, he’d push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like an old worn - out doll. i can still see mama watching him, her hand pressed tight across her mouth, her eyes wide and unblinking. but he learned to crawl (it was his third winter), and we brought him out of the front bedroom, putting him on the rug before the fireplace. for the first time he became one of us.

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college ready english 9 	he scarlet ibis\ annotations and dialectical journals it was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so i began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow. however, one afternoon as i watched him, my head poked between the iron posts of the foot of the bed, he looked straight at me and grinned. i skipped through the rooms, down the echoing halls, shouting, \mama, he smiled. he’s all there! he’s all there!\ and he was. when he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to move himself, straining terribly. the doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn’t. trembling, he’d push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like an old worn - out doll. i can still see mama watching him, her hand pressed tight across her mouth, her eyes wide and unblinking. but he learned to crawl (it was his third winter), and we brought him out of the front bedroom, putting him on the rug before the fireplace. for the first time he became one of us.

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# Brief Explanations:
The narrator initially finds having an invalid brother unbearable, even planning to kill him. But the brother's smile changes his view, showing a shift from rejection to acceptance as he realizes the brother is "all there." Later, the brother's efforts to move and crawl show his determination, and the family's inclusion of him shows growing acceptance.
# Answer:
The narrator's initial feelings towards his invalid brother were negative (unbearable, planned to kill), but the brother's smile made him see the brother as "all there," and the brother's later efforts to move/crawl and family's inclusion showed a shift to acceptance.

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