2. What character trait describes Will in this scene from "The Fight?" Support

your answer with one piece of evidence from the excerpt. Explain. (RL 6.1)

"Things probably would have taken a peaceful turn if I hadn't walked home with

Kevin Cox after school and told him that the next time Mike and I played basketball I

was really going to throw some elbows, and if he, Mike, didn't like it, I would fight him

anytime, anywhere. I don't know why I said this. Perhaps I was thinking of the thin,

gullible, good-natured Mike who had since grown four inches, gained fifteen pounds,

and become as humorless and menacing as a drill sergeant. Kevin looked at me

doubtfully.

"Do you really think you can take him? he asked me.

Since Kevin had always been one of my most loyal and servile followers, I was

astonished by his doubt in my physical prowess.

"I know I can take him," I said.

"He's three inches taller than you," Kevin said.

"So?"

"He's really strong."

"I'm really strong."