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.

In which of the following excerpts from "the yellow wall paper" does author charlotte perkins gilman seem to mock the romantic belief in the supernatural? a. a colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, i would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate! b. there is a delicious garden! i never saw such a garden—large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.c. the color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.d. then i peeled off all the paper i could reach standing on the floor. it sticks horribly and the pattern just enjoys it!