"Let me reduce my argument to the hopelessly simplistic: poems, I am
saying are neither about 'subjects'
nor about 'themselves'. They are
necessarily about other poems, a
poem is a response to a poem, as a
poet is a response to a poet, or a
person to his parent. Trying to write
a poem takes the poet back to the
origins of what a poem first was for
him, and so takes the poet back
beyond the pleasure principle to the
decisive initial encounter and
response that began in him."

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

ok if it wasn't the hans one it was probably c or he thought the mountain was collapsing on them.

well if u read the book you would know that she meant to