Read the excerpt from Heart of a Samurai. No matter how odd-looking or dangerous they were, Manjiro had to choke down his fear and ask them to help his friends.

Based on this description, which word best describes Manjiro?

stubborn
courageous
weak
uncaring

courageous

Explanation:

"Heart of a Samurai" is a novel written by Margi Preus. It tells the story of a poor Japanese fisherman, Manjiro, who ends up in America after a shipwreck.

From this excerpt we can infer that Manjiro is a very brave person because he "choked down" his fear in order to help his friends.

He was afraid, but he didn't run away. He stayed and made a contact with these "odd-looking" people, no matter how potentially dangerous they could have been.

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.