Answer:
if im thinking right, it's "gone"
The correct answer is:
This is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.
Sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,
A, the protagonist.
The protagonist does the most deeds or heroic things in the story, or is the person who is mainly talking and doing things in the story.
Because Thorton was trying to protect a tenderfoot that burton was fighting with. So Burten took it out on thorton instead. Hope this helps!!
