Mark Twain once said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Do you believe Twain's statement to be true or false? Write an argumentative essay either in support of or rejecting this quotation. You must use at least three pieces of textual evidence, focusing on the author's use of dialogue and figurative language, from readings in this unit in your essay. Your essay should be at least 500 words in length.

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.