!read the excerpt from the land, part 1. in the beginning the two of us didn't get along at all. fact to business, there was a time it seemed like to me mitchell thomas lived just to taunt me. there were other boys too who picked on me, but mitchell was the worst. i recall one time in particular when i was about nine or so and i was reading beside a creek on my daddy's land, and mitchell came up from behind me and just whopped me on the head. which character is indirectly characterized in this excerpt? mitchell’s father mitchell paul’s father paul