PLEASE HELP WILL GIVE BRAINLEST
Which of the following quotations is an example of direct characterization from "Chasing Redbird?"

a. "Aunt Jessie loved those roses."

b. "Each year after that, she was thrilled in the spring when the first rosebud appeared, and each year, with the arrival of winter, she became dejected all over again, as if she didn't believe or didn't remember that spring would come again."

c. "She threw the rose to the ground."

d. "Beyond the ash tree was a rose garden: twenty bushes planted by Uncle Nate the year that baby Rose died."