Which sentence in this excerpt from mark twain’s short story “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county” is an example of direct characterization? i found simon wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of angel's, and i noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. he roused up and gave me good-day. i told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named leonidas w. smiley — rev. leonidas w. smiley — a young minister of the gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of angel's camp. i added, that, if mr. wheeler, could tell me anything about this rev. leonidas w. smiley, i would feel under many obligations to him. simon wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat me down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).

at hatfield elementary school, there are 504 students in 7 classes. each class has the same number of students. what is a good estimate of the number of students in each class?