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. I didn't figure I was taking much of a risk in talking to my daddy about him. Only thing that might get both Mitchell and me into trouble with my daddy down the road was Mitchell's temper, so I warned Mitchell my daddy was going to be watching him. —The Land, Mildred D. Taylor Which descriptions are direct characterizations of Mitchell? Check all that apply. a. is good with horses b. cannot ride a horse well c. can care for horses well d. is reliable e. is risky f. has a temper g. is always watching

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.

How did the older men calm the younger ones down when they learned from some of the prisoners where they were? (chapter 3 of the book night)

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