Highlight the details that show actions. "Whoa there, Wind," I said softly as I tried to get near the stallion. "It's me, boy. It's Paul." I extended my hand slowly. "Let me take a look at you now. It's all right. It's all right." The stallion pulled back at first. I kept talking, and he finally allowed me to touch him. He whinnied just a bit, and I patted him gingerly, trying to make him know me; then, when he was still, I took a closer look at his leg.

—The Land,
Mildred D. Taylor

What does this passage tell you about Paul’s character?

Paul is afraid of horses, so he spends as much time as he can trying to befriend them.
Paul is a showoff who will most likely end up hurting himself on a horse.
Paul is very skilled with horses and understands how to calm them down.

In his play macbeth, william shakespeare drew source material fromraphael holinshed's chronicles of british history. compare thetwo passages about the slaying of the rebel macdonald.andwhich answer best describes how shakespeare transforms thepassage from the chronicles in his play? reaten andin the chronicles, macbeth finds the dead body ofo macdonald and leaves it where it is, but in the playshakespeare has macbeth take the body to the king.foundof thein the chronicles, macbeth cuts off the head of the deadmacdonald and hangs it up, but in the play, shakespearedeletes that partsetnenuponin the chronicles, macbeth is portrayed as a cruel man whocuts off macdonald's head, but in the play, shakespearemakes macbeth kinder by having him bury the manpearein the chronicles, macbeth finds the dead body ofmacdonald, but in the play, shakespeare has macbeth killthe man himself.