Answer:
The answer to the question: Which of the following is the best example of a personal essay, would be, B: Being a pirate´s slave wasn´t easy. I had to clean the ship´s decks and do other dirty work. Many times, I thought about escaping. But everywhere I looked, there was only the wide sea.
Explanation:
A personal essay is named so because its purpose is for a writer to use his/her own personal experiences, personal events, or people who have directly affected him/her, to write. Although still following a central idea, or claim, this claim, however, differs from other styles of writing in that it portrays the way that the event, or person, or experiences, affected the person who is writing. What matters in this type of writing, mostly, is the narration of the event, the details used, the vocabulary used to connect the reader on a personal level with the writer, not just facts. The second choice in the question, precisely fulfills these characteristics of a personal essay, and that is why it is the correct option.
