In this excerpt from “the ransom of red chief,” how does the author reveal information about bill and the boy, johnny? when i got to the cave i found bill backed up against the side of it, breathing hard, and the boy threatening to smash him with a rock half as big as a cocoanut. a. by describing their decisions b. by describing their words c. by describing their actions d. by describing their interaction with other characters e. by describing other characters' reactions to them

by desribing their actions

Explanation:

because if you say you are going to do something that is a action not a reaction or decesion.

A. Elenita versus the music of her parents' homeland.

Explanation: in literature, a conflict is a struggle between opposite forces, usually between a character (the main character or a very important one) and himself (internal conflict), society or another character (external conflict). In the given excerpt from Gravity by Judith Ortiz Cofer we can see an example of an external conflict between a character (Elenita) and the music of her parents' homeland, which her mother used to listen to in the evenings.