Contrary to most collegiate textbooks, the lectures in class defined theme as a means to understand the levels of conflict in the story and that the main thought advanced in any piece of fiction as the

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

marcus junius brutus, likewise called quintus caepio brutus, (conceived most likely 85 bce—kicked the bucket 42 bce, close philippi, macedonia [now in northwestern greece]), roman lawmaker, one of the pioneers in the intrigue that killed julius caesar in 44 bce. brutus was the child of marcus junius brutus (who was deceptively executed by pompey the great in 77) and servilia (who later turned into caesar's sweetheart). after his appropriation by an uncle, quintus servilius caepio, he was generally called quintus caepio brutus.