Mary Jackson prepared an assignment but John Becker was not ready to approve the result of the assignment which led to the disagreement between them.
It became evident later that John Becker had the wrong input data which made him the wrong party in the disagreement.
The poem connects to your life because you usually write about your life experiences or heart felt moments and put it into a poem to express how you emotionally feel or physically feel
I believe these parts provide direct characterization: "<span>Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose, as with iron clamps, he followed out his original design, probably without so much as imagining an objection to it."
The writer clearly and directly describes the character's personal features, as well as his internal motivation for an action. It is opposed to indirect characterization, where we can grasp the character's traits or motivation through his/her actions or speech.</span>