Please help I'm almost there.

Explanation:

A million years ago, when dinosaurs were still roaming the earth, our English teacher came into the room and said to us. Look! Running up a tree, I saw a squirrel. Then when we had finished looking out the window to see if we could see the squirrel, she said to us. "What's the problem with that sentence?"

Trapped. A teacher joke.

Then we caught on. There was no squirrel, but there was a problem. Who was running up the tree?

You have the same difficulty. The punctuation is fine. The problem is in

Hope shouted my name, running toward me with a big stuffed animal.

Who exactly is doing the running? It sounds like your name is doing the running.  You have to fix the order.

Running toward me holding a stuffed animal was Hope. As she ran, she was shouting my name. Even that is not totally correct. Let's try again.

Holding a stuffed animal as she ran toward me, Hope was shouting my name.

You can report this as a problem. The punctuation and Capitalization are fine. The order isn't.

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