Which two traits can you infer about mira in this excerpt from “games at twilight” by anita desai? .
the children, too, felt released. they too began tumbling, shoving, pushing against each other, frantic to start. start what? start their business. the business of the children’s day which is—play.
“let’s play hide-and-seek.”
“who’ll be it? ”
“you be it.”
“why should i? you be——”
“you’re the eldest——”
“that doesn’t mean——”
the shoves became harder. some kicked out. the motherly mira intervened. she pulled the boys roughly apart. there was a tearing sound of cloth, but it was lost in the heavy panting and angry grumbling, and no one paid attention to the small sleeve hanging loosely off a shoulder.
“make a circle, make a circle! ” she shouted, firmly pulling and pushing till a kind of vague circle was formed. “now clap! ” she roared, and, clapping, they all chanted in melancholy unison: “dip, dip, dip—my blue ship——” and every now and then one or the other saw he was safe by the way his hands fell at the crucial moment—palm on palm, or back of hand on palm—and dropped out of the circle with a yell and a jump of relief and jubilation.
a) mira is more mature than the other kids in the group.
b) mira is acting like a leader for the group of children.
c) mira is pushing around the other kids and hoping to win the game.
d) mira is arrogant and haughty and tries to disrupt the kids’ games.

This short story “ Games at Twilight “ written by Anita Desai relates about the games that children used to play outside. Ravi, one of the children finds the games so important that when he does not win he remains disillusioned. Mira is described as the ‘motherly’ figure here, which shows her maturity and she steers the group as a true leader.

Question: Which two traits can you infer about Mira in this excerpt from “Games at Twilight” by Anita Desai?.

A) Mira is more mature than the other kids in the group.

B) Mira is acting like a leader for the group of children.

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explanation:

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human