Readers can tell that London is using direct characterization to describe Charles and Hal because he O shows how the men behave and react to their environment. O states how the men look and says that they do not belong in the North. shows the men's actions and thoughts about the adventure. states the men's thoughts and words about the harsh conditions.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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