Answer: the answer is d) sad.
Explanation: it is a feeling on pensive sadness.
Answer:
A). His confidence is transformed by the crowd's response.
Explanation:
Characterization plays a vital role in conveying the intended picture or image of a particular character to the audience so that they could elicit desired response about each character accordingly.
As per the question, Scotty in the given excerpt from 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' is portrayed as the one 'whose confidence boosts and gets transformed by receiving the positive and encouraging response from the audience' by the author. The author begins the passage with presenting Scotty as a little nervous and quavering and he had to redouble his force in order to face the audience but the audience's cheer and the swell of approval from the center of the crowd gave transformed his confidence and brought the hidden 'strong, charismatic, and fierce' side of Scotty. Therefore, <u>option A</u> is the correct answer.
It is somehow related because Sad Perfect is a book about a girl who has an eating disorder, as you know this is not an easy thing to deal with so it would not be uncommon to hate your life. It's not a quote from the book but it can relate.
