Answer: The Hazara are a people living mostly in central Afghanistan. Due to their ethnic features and religious beliefs, the Shia Muslim Hazaras, living in a predominantly Sunni Muslim Aghanistan, have faced cultural and economic discrimination, as well as religious persecution.
Explanation:
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.
If you’re talking about chapter 12:
Soda runs out of the house because he doesn’t want to hear Darry and Ponyboy fighting again. On top of that, his letter that he sent to Sandy was returned unopened.
The answer is indirectly through dialogue
