Read the excerpt from the land, part 1. george looked at me dead center. "you tell our daddy about this? " one thing i liked about my brother george was that he laid things right on the line; he said exactly what was on his mind. on the surface he was an easygoing sort of boy with a body that seemed to hang in a lazy fashion, such as always having one leg dangling over the arm of a chair when our daddy wasn't around. but the truth was, he had himself a fierce kind of temper when baited and a steely right hand to match. which character is being directly characterized in this excerpt?