Read the excerpt from Warriors Don't Cry.As hard as I tried not to care, I couldn’t start my morning without knowing what the governor, his National Guard, and the school board were up to. I had to face the awful truth. Grandma was right, I was letting those people determine how I felt, and how I lived a great part of my day.

The narrator says she could not begin her morning without checking what the governor, National Guard, and school board were doing, and calls this realization an “awful truth.” This shows that their actions weighed on her and upset her, so “bothered” best describes her feelings. “Inspired” and “sympathetic” do not fit the worry and distress in the excerpt.

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