Direct and Indirect Characterization in The Land Answers

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.In the beginning the two of us didn't get along at all. Fact to business, there was a time it seemed like to me Mitchell Thomas lived just to taunt me. There were other boys too who picked on me, but Mitchell was the worst. I recall one time in particular when I was about nine or so and I was reading beside a creek on my daddy's land, and Mitchell came up from behind me and just whopped me on the head.

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.My daddy was true to his word too. More than one time he saw me with a busted lip or a bruised eye, but he showed me no sympathy. He just looked at me and said, "See you didn't stop it yet." After a while, though, he said, "Paul, you don't stop this soon, those boys are going to kill you."

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.Hammond continued to be diplomatic. "We want you two to try to be friends, Mitchell. We're all living here on the same land, and we all have to work together, so I don't want to hear of any more fights between the two of you. Understood?"

Which excerpt from The Land, Part 4 is an example of direct characterization of Paul’s father?

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.I loved my daddy. I loved my brothers too. But in the end it was Mitchell Thomas and I who were most like brothers, with a bond that couldn't be broken. The two of us came into Mississippi together by way of East Texas, and that was when we were still boys, long after we had come to our understanding of each other. Seeing that we were a long way from our Georgia home and both of us being strangers here in Mississippi, the two of us depended on each other and became as family.But it wasn't always that way.

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1."You'd better figure a way," she said matter-of-factly, then looked me in the eyes. "You want me to talk to him?"I didn't even need to think on that. "Naw, course not! You did, then they'd all be saying I had my sister fighting my battles!"Cassie shrugged. "Then you'd better figure something out quick."

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 2.As far as I knew, Mitchell had never ridden more than a mule and had no idea how to ride a thoroughbred tornado like Ghost Wind. But instead of Mitchell following me, the next thing I knew, I heard a triumphant cry, turned, and saw Mitchell atop the stallion dashing across the meadow. For a moment all I could do was stand and stare. But then, as the stallion bucked, left the meadow, and headed for the woods, I suddenly found my legs and my voice, and I began running and screaming after Mitchell and the stallion. "Pull back the reins!" I hollered as I ran. "Mitchell, the reins! Pull back hard!"

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 4.Mitchell didn't say anything, and we sat there in silence looking out over my daddy's land together. After a while I said, "One day I'll have a place like this."Mitchell turned toward me. "What you mean, like this'? Figured you t' be here.""No," I said. "No, I won't be here, not here on my daddy's land. One day I'll have land of my own. I've got to have something all my own."

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 4.When Ray Sutcliffe left us, I said to my daddy, "You didn't ask me if I wanted to ride that man's horse.""No, I didn't.""Well, why not? Maybe I wanted to ride for him."

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 4.But I also figured Mitchell needed somebody to speak up for him, the same way Mitchell must have figured I needed somebody to speak up for me on the day we buried my mama. As I'd told my daddy, Mitchell was good with horses. He couldn't sit a horse well, but he could care for them well, and he was reliable.