Which of the following quote about or by jing-mei in amy tans “two kinds” is an example of indirect characterization? a) “of course, you can be a prodigy, too,” my mother told me when i was nine. “you can be best anything. what does auntie lindo know? her daughter, she is only best tricky.” b) every night after dinner my mother and i would sit at the formica topped kitchen table. c) “peter pan is very popular these days” the instructor assured my mother. d) i now had bad hair the length of a boy’s, with curly bangs that hung at a slant two inches above my eyebrows. i liked the haircut, and it made me actually look forward to my future fame.

The correct answer is C, because it has been perceived that the discourse given by the character indirectly reflects the features of his personality without being explicitly argued. When his instructor says that Peter Pan is very famous these days, he refers to a person who depends a lot on his mother and who does not assume his responsibilities, so the reader could conclude that the character is a dependent, insecure, irresponsible person , etc. In this way, it is the reader who draws his own conclusions about the personality, how it works and how the character reacts.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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