Which sentence in the following passage is an example of direct characterization?

jacques was a very nice man. he volunteered at the community center several times a week. on the weekends, he offered to his neighbors do chores. one summer, he even got permission from the city to build a swing set at the local park.

Read this excerpt from leah missbach day's foreword to wheels of change. as wbr's resident photographer i am privileged to see firsthand the impact bicycles have on the lives of our recipients. why does the author include this excerpt?

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Would the essay be more effective in explaining the concept of dead reckoning if you knew from the beginning that ahmed is an ant?