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\dont worry,\ said roger button as we all started to walk again. \i know how busy
you are. but we ought to talk. chew over old times. when you last saw me - at
school, i mean - i suppose i was a rather feeble specimen. but, you know, that all
changed when i got to fourteen, fifteen. i really toughened up. became quite a
leader type. but youd long since left canada. i always wondered what would have
happened if wed come across each other at fifteen. things would have been rather
different between us, i assure you.\
as he said this, memories came flooding back. in those days, roger button had
idolized me, and in return i had bullied him incessantly. however, there had existed
between us a curious understanding that my bullying him was all for his own good;
that when, without warning, i suddenly punched him in the stomach on the
playground, or when, passing him in the corridor, i impulsively wrenched his arm up
his back until he started to cry, i was doing so in order to help him toughen up.
accordingly, the principal effect such attacks had on our relationship was to keep
him in awe of me. this all came back to me as i listened to the weary - looking man
walking beside me.
\of course,\ roger button went on, perhaps guessing my train of thought, \it might
well be that if you hadnt treated me the way you did id never have become what i
did at fifteen. in any case, ive often wondered how it would have been if wed met
just a few years later. i really was something to be reckoned with by then.\
guiding questions
which sentence best describes the relationship between
fletcher and roger buttons when they were children?
a fletcher was unkind to roger and often tormented
him.
b fletcher was kind to roger and acted as rogers
mentor.
c roger treated fletcher like a younger brother and
protected him.
d the boys had a deep friendship because they
were both from england.

Explanation:

The text states that "in return I had bullied him incessantly" which means Fletcher was unkind and tormented Roger. Option B is incorrect as Fletcher was not kind. Option C is wrong as it's Fletcher who was the bully, not Roger protecting. Option D has no basis in the text about their friendship being due to England.

Answer:

A. Fletcher was unkind to Roger and often tormented him.