When an author shows the reader ideas about a character through their speech, thought, actions, or what others say about him, the author is using:

helpful wird

Explanation:

it encroached people through tought time

what do you mean

explanation:

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can