Question

Read what happens after the narrator learns that his brother has a developmental disability.

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.

–“The Scarlet Ibis,”
James Hurst

What does the imagery “I skipped through the rooms, down the echoing halls, shouting, ‘Mama, he smiled. He’s all there!’” show about the narrator?

The narrator’s urgent voice shows that there is something very wrong with Doodle.
The echoing sound of his voice shows his excitement that his brother is communicating.
The brother’s skipping shows that he is not in a hurry to share his news with his mother.

Answer 1

The correct answer is :

The echoing sound of his voice shows his excitement that his brother is communicating.

The narrator has problems accepting the idea that his brother is different. He is not only an invalid but he also has a developmental disability. The narrator is ashamed of his brother and wants to kill him by smothering him with a pillow. Something changes one day, when the narrator watches his brother  from under the bed. Seeing it as a joke, the disabled brother begins to grin which makes the healthy brother assume he understood his intended prank. The narrator is convinced that in order to understand it, his brother must have normal mental capacities, he is overjoyed about this fact  and runs fast to his mother to tell her the good news.

Answer 2

Answer:

The echoing sound of his voice shows his excitement that his brother is communicating

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