I sighed with impatience. In recent months Armand had become a figure of authority, siding with my father and mother occasionally. As the oldest son, he sometimes took advantage of his age and experience to issue rules and regulations. "How much money have you got?" he whispered. "You in some kind of trouble?" I asked, excitement rising in me as I remembered the blackmail plot of a movie at the Globe a month before. He shook his head in annoyance. "Look," he said, "it's Pa's birthday tomorrow. I think we ought to chip in and buy him something ... " Which best identifies the character traits this passage reveals in Armand?

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Kaylin Sloan

9 October, 14:13

I sighed with impatience. In recent months Armand had become a figure of authority, siding with my father and mother occasionally. As the oldest son, he sometimes took advantage of his age and experience to issue rules and regulations. "How much money have you got?" he whispered. "You in some kind of trouble?" I asked, excitement rising in me as I remembered the blackmail plot of a movie at the Globe a month before. He shook his head in annoyance. "Look," he said, "it's Pa's birthday tomorrow. I think we ought to chip in and buy him something ... " Which best identifies the character traits this passage reveals in Armand?

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Peter Durham · Answer 1

This passage shows that Armand, over the course of this piece, is trying to grow up and make it clear he is the oldest and the most in charge of the children. His thoughtfulness of wanting to buy his father a birthday present shows his maturity, and the fact that he is siding with his parents (clearly more than he has in the past, based on the narrator's impatience) shows that he is trying to be more adult and grown up.