Which sentence in this excerpt from mark twain’s short story “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county” is an example of direct characterization?

(i found simon wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of angel's, and i noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance.) (he roused up and gave me good-day.) i told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named leonidas w. smiley — rev. leonidas w. smiley — a young minister of the gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of angel's camp. (i added, that, if mr. wheeler, could tell me anything about this rev. leonidas w. smiley, i would feel under many obligations to him. )

(simon wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat me down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.)

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

Diego rivera was a famous artist from mexico. most of his paintings were murals. murals are paintings that are made directly on a wall. rivera thought that all people should be able to see beautiful art, not just people who could afford to go to museums. this is why he painted most of his murals on the walls of public buildings

How do cheetah kitten silver manes them to survive? quote evidence from the teaxt to support your response and explain your answer completely