Answer: Jason bought his mother a beautiful flower is direct because it is a sentence that tells you what he did (direct/ i hope you understand)
The player kicked the ball is indirect
... On AND ON... I hope you understood
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When Thoreau says <em>superfluous wealth</em> he refers to money that is not needed or there is more of it than enough and that with all that money can be bought just things that we do not need. Those things make us blind for what should be really important in life. As he goes on in the second sentence - we can have money, but we can not buy what our soul needs. Life can be experienced far more fully when living simply.