Which of these is a direct characterization of ted from "my brother's keeper"?

a) i'm your kid brother. fiver yeas younger than you are and all the time, all through the years i had to act like i was the older brother.

b) "i got scared. scared. i wasn't myself. i wasn't."

c) and jaimie thought how on the football field ted loomed large, so very large

d) ted looked fearfully at him and didn't speak

(A) I'm your kid brother. Five years younger than you are and all the time, all through the years I had to act like I was the older brother.

This is direct characterization. The 'kid brother' is being described in direct detail, without leaving any ambiguities.

the answer should be d) he was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of tangled emotion" since it is the best option because it shows his desire to free himself. 

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