In this excerpt from isaac asimov’s “the fun they had,” what method of indirect characterization is used?

“gee,” said tommy, “what a waste. when you’re through with the book, you just throw it away, i guess. our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. i wouldn’t throw it away.”

“same with mine,” said margie. she was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebooks as tommy had. he was thirteen.

a.
speech
b.
thoughts
c.
effect on others
d.
actions
e.
looks

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

o h y e a h y e a

hm, switch the relative; nominative and indefinite; objective ? not too bright in the knowledge of the english.