Dose the narrator of “the outsider” experience anxiety or fear? How do you know? (Include evidence)

Read the excerpt from "how i learned english.” and that was important, as important as joe barone asking me how i was through his tears, picking me up and dusting me off with hands like swatters, what does the imagery in the excerpt best readers picture? the awful stinging sensation of being dusted off the quick slapping motion of joe’s hands how roughly the speaker is pulled off the ground how loud and hard joe is laughing

Which counter claim is most effective against this claim? rob's essay includes

It is clearly expressed. what does that mean?