Question

Which of the following is an example of indirect characterization? My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. At first, my mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret.

Answer 1

Answer:

She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret is the example of indirect characterization.

Explanation:

Indirect characterization is the process by which the writer describes a character through his or her actions or speech, and not by explicitly telling the reader what type of person that character is. In this case, the excerpt She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret tells the reader about the personality of the mother through indirect characterization.

Answer 2

"She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China. But she never looked back with regret."

Or rather,

"She never looked back with regret."