How can a writer best highlight the qualities of the subject in a personal narrative? Which sentence best shows the reader what the narrator’s brother is like?

For a whole month, my brother came home every day after school and worked on his college applications.
My brother, the oldest child in our family, is six years older than I am and nine years older than my sister.
My brother is very motivated to succeed in achieving the goals he has set for himself.
After my brother went to college, I thought a lot about the goals I want to achieve for myself.

a. both connotative and denotative.

well stockyards mean a large yard containing pens and sheds, typically adjacent to a slaughterhouse, in which livestock is kept and sorted. and i'm assuming that by party you   mean a large group of people which does make sense because chicago is a very crowded place much like new york. stockyards tend to take up a lot of room due to needing the area for pens to keep animals in and the fact that stockyards are usually right by slaughterhouse where they process and distribute the product. so its much like a zoo but with some dead animal products close by.

1. this would be first person. it would be like "i walked home from school today" they are the narrator of the story and is a character as well.

2. first person because they used the word "i" in the quote.

3. i'm really not sure about this one i'm really sorry i never read it so i wouldn't know how to answer it. 

4. it would be character vs. society because everyone he meets there is always a conflict of some sort because he's stuck in his daydream.

5. it would be sadness at the loss of youth because the title itself tells us it's about age so it couldn't be about regret. and the tone just sounds sad, not angry. 

i hope this !