Sorry it took so long for response the answer is combine information from a text with their own experiences.
Answer:
Indirect characterization – the narrator is relating the major’s thoughts, words, and actions.
Explanation:
The direct characterization is when the qualities of the character are tell to the audience, for example “The rude girl looked at the boy”, here we do not need to assume her personality by her actions or thought we already she is rude, it is explicit in the sentence, however in this excerpt we assume the personality of the major based on his thoughts and actions, this is the indirect charavcterization.
Letter choice B is your answer
He's trying to explain what exactly motivated him, particularly in the second paragraph. It was none of the things that would motivate someone to commit murder. Gain of any kind was out of the question. Feelings were not the motive. Nothing the old man had motivated him.
It was just his eye. So he's in a battle with himself. (That's the first answer).
We are leading up to something and we need to have a background. This is not the climax or the resolution. It is not the falling action -- just the opposite. It is the build up towards the climax.
So the only thing it can be is the exposition which is the second answer.
