Read the passage. the instructor handed each student a set of keys. " you," owen mumbled, looking at the ground. he gripped the key ring and scanned the parking lot for his assigned vehicle. soon he was inserting the key in the lock, opening the door, and folding his lanky frame into the driver's seat. his breath escaped him in a frosty cloud, and he surveyed his surroundings. the mysterious gauges and knobs were confounding, and owen wished that he had listened to one of his mom's many driving lectures. his sweaty palms gripped the cold steering wheel. around the parking lot, his classmates were beginning to navigate the cone-marked course. what conclusion can readers draw about owen?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant