A persuasive essay is suppose to convince someone or convey them to a certain topic or to engage people in an activity. It works just like pseudoscience, but it is more in trying to convince the reader to do something or inform the reader in a conveying topic.
I believe that in this story, the conflict between the wolves and Shere Khan over what to do with the young Mowgli is resolved by Akela promising Shere Khan that he may fight Mowgli once Mowgli is big enough to defend himself.
I think the answer might be B but i am not certain.
Caliban realized that stephano and trinculo aren't smart because they were drunk and obviously drunkards can't even bothered to do anything, and they were not even listening or taking interest when he was talking about the plan to kill Prospero. Soon caliban realized that they were just drunken idiots he was telling his plans to.