Read the excerpt below from the novel the wild things by dave eggers and answer the question that follows. his sister claire was fourteen, almost fifteen, and was no longer interested in max, not on a consistent basis at least. . she had adopted a tone of perpetual dissatisfaction and annoyance with everything max did, and with most things that existed in the world. source: eggers, dave. the wild things. new york: random house, 2009. google books. web. 10 may 2011. what type of characterization is used in the excerpt to reveal claire’s character traits? indirect direct both direct and indirect neither direct nor indirect

The answer is: direct.

Direct characterization occurs when the author discloses a character's personality features in a straightforward manner.

In the excerpt from "The Wild Things," the writer Dave Eggers details Claire's temperament in an explicit way, particularly as regards her relationship with Max. For example, she is almost fifteen and is not too impressed by him. As a matter of fact, she feels irritated by him and possesses a general tendency of dissatisfaction.

situational archetype describes the adventures of hero. the examples of situational archetypes are the quest, good vs evil, the task which represent respectively search, good forces, characters vs the evil ones and a certain job that must be done. from the given options, we cannot observe the subplot the beauty and the beast which is a correct answer for this question.

given the fact that the question is about the detail that best support the idea that oppressive leaders use   propaganda to achieve thir goals,   the first option does not refer to any kind of propaganda, since it only tells about that the milk and the windfall apple should be reserved for the pigs. in the second option, that is, "snowball and napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on the neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the rebellion, and teach them the tune of "beasts of england". it can be identified that the oppressors make use of the propaganda, which is represented by the pigeons, and the information they have to tell other animals about what was happening in the farm in order to get their objectives. for that reason, the right answer is the second option, taking into account that the third option do not refer to propaganda since it only talks about that they did not want jones back. and, finally, the last option refers to the result of the given news, but it does not mean about the propaganda they used to achieve their goals.