Read this excerpt from the call of the wild. charles was a middle-aged, lightish-colored man, with weak and watery eyes and a mustache that twisted fiercely and vigorously up, giving the lie to the limply drooping lip it concealed. hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty . . both men were manifestly out of place, and why such as they should adventure the north is part of the mystery of things that passes understanding. readers can tell that london is using direct characterization to describe charles and hal because he