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Read the excerpt from The Land.

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.

George looked at me dead center. "You tell our daddy about this?" One thing I liked about my brother George was that he laid things right on the line; he said exactly what was on his mind. On the surface he was an easygoing sort of boy with a body that seemed to hang in a lazy fashion, such as always having one leg dangling over the arm of a chair when our daddy wasn't around. But the truth was, he had himself a fierce kind of temper when baited and a steely right hand to match.

Which character is being directly characterized in this excerpt?

George
Paul
Paul’s father
Mitchell

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George

The narrator is intensely describing his brother George in this entire paragraph, and when you describe another character it’s called characterizing.
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