Which excerpt from The Call of the Wild is an example of direct characterization? “Dave refused to run quietly on the trail behind the sled, where the going was easy, but continued to flounder alongside in the soft snow, where the going was most difficult, till exhausted.” “But Mercedes interfered, crying, ‘Oh, Hal, you mustn’t,’ as she caught hold of the whip and wrenched it from him. ‘The poor dears! Now you must promise you won’t be harsh with them for the rest of the trip, or I won’t go a step.’” “‘Mush on, poor sore feets,’ the driver encouraged them as they tottered down the main street of Skaguay. ‘Dis is de las’. Den we get one long res’. Eh? For sure. One bully long res’.’” “But the Outside dogs, though practically broken in since their landing, did not amount to much. Three were short-haired pointers, one was a Newfoundland, and the other two were mongrels of indeterminate breed.”

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.