Answer:
Wes is naturally gifted, but this ends up working against him at school. Wes is apathetic (uninterested/no concern) towards class.
Gifted, apathetic, impulsive
Answer:
Learning how to ride a bike was a piece of cake
Explanation:
piece of cake is an idiom
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe mainly wrote about slavery.