I expect you to provide at least five-to-six full paragraphs for your deep, developed response. Use an introduction, develop your material in body paragraphs, and include a conclusion, if you have time. Use details for illustration and support. Explain what you mean. Make sure I will understand that you have a deep understanding of your topic across the breadth of the book, as appropriate.
Directions: You will write on ONE topic from these four choices.
2A: TMM’s Educational Journey
Show me the key stages in TMM’s education as we get it in A Pearl in the Storm from childhood to adulthood. A lot of this education is academic, but some of that education is emotional and even spiritual. Guide me through the different types of education and the different stages or steps in TMM’s development.
2B: Voyage 1 vs. Voyage 2.
Write an essay on the key differences and the key similarities of the two voyages. Obviously one was unsuccessful and the other successful, but there’s a lot that can be said to show me the significant aspects of both voyages. Be sure to also address how TMM herself is the same and/or different during the two voyages. (Has her motivation changed or not, for example?)
2C: Physical and Psychological Demands of TMM’s Voyages.
What of the psychological demands faced by Tori Murden McClure in her two trips across the Atlantic Ocean? And, how are these trips hard on her mind and her emotions? How do the physical hardships and other factors matter for Toris mental and emotional states? Are the psychological demands different on the different trips?
2D: Helplessness
Tori Murden McClures battle against helplessness is an important part of this book.
Write an essay that guides us through Toris lifelong history with this daunting enemy.
Help me to see the important moments or stages of her struggle against helplessness.
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