<span>Blaeser, in "Rituals of Memory," expresses being torn when she was in school, as school signified the beginning of her acting differently while in school and while out of school. She was both German Catholic and Native American, and her family pulled her in a different direction than she wanted to go. To compensate, she learned both German and a Native American language, Anishinaabe, and she considered later in life how the German and Native American communities of her rural Minnesotan home coexisted.</span>
The author is using B. INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION.
Indirect Characterization refers to what the character says or does. In the above passage, the author wrote what the character does. We, as the readers, only infer what the character is all about because we cannot read his mind or "get inside his head".
Direct Characterization refers to what the narrator directly says or thinks about the character. The reader is told what the character is like.
