Question

Read the following passage from “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner and answer the question.

1 To-morrow they were there. In the early afternoon the wagon stopped before a paintless two-room
2 house identical almost with the dozen others it had stopped before even in the boy’s ten years, and again,
3 as on the other dozen occasions, his mother and aunt got down and began to unload the wagon,
4 although his two sisters and his father and brother had not moved.
5 "Likely hit ain’t fitten for hawgs," one of the sisters said.
6 "Nevertheless, fit it will and you’ll hog it and like it," his father said. "Get out of them chairs
7 and help your Ma unload."
8 The two sisters got down, big, bovine, in a flutter of cheap ribbons; one of them drew from the
9 jumbled wagon bed a battered lantern, the other a worn broom. His father handed the reins to the
10 older son and began to climb stiffly over the wheel. "When they get unloaded, take the team to the
11 barn and feed them." Then he said, and at first the boy thought he was still speaking to his
12 brother: "Come with me."
13 "Me?" he said.
14 "Yes," his father said. "You."
15 "Abner," his mother said. His father paused and looked back—the harsh level stare beneath the shaggy,
16 graying, irascible brows.
17 "I reckon I’ll have a word with the man that aims to begin to-morrow owning me body and soul for
18 the next eight months."
19 They went back up the road. A week ago—or before last night, that is—he would have asked where
20 they were going, but not now. His father had struck him before last night but never before had he paused
afterward to explain why; it was as if the blow and the following calm, outrageous voice still rang,
21 repercussed, divulging nothing to him save the terrible handicap of being young, the light weight of his
22 few years, just heavy enough to prevent his soaring free of the world as it seemed to be ordered but
23 not heavy enough to keep him footed solid in it, to resist it and try to change the course of
24 its events.
Question
Which word best describes the boy based on the descriptions in the last paragraph?
(1 point)
Responses

helpless
helpless

confident
confident

stubborn
stubborn

aggressive

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

helpless