Question

PLEASE HELP ME ILL MAKE YOU BRAINLIEST Read the passage from "A Cub Pilot":      I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and I could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.     “Quarter twain! Quarter twain! Mark twain!”     We were drawing nine! My hands were in a nerveless flutter. I could not ring a bell intelligibly with them. I flew to the speaking-tube and shouted to the engineer,     “Oh, Ben, if you love me, back her! Quick, Ben! Oh, back the immortal soul out of her!”     I heard the door close gently. I looked around, and there stood Mr. Bixby, smiling a bland, sweet smile. Then the audience on the hurricane-deck sent up a thundergust of humiliating laughter. I saw it all now, and felt meaner than the meanest man in human history. I laid in the lead, set the boat in her marks, came ahead on the engines, and said,     “It was a fine trick to play on an orphan, wasn’t it? I suppose I’ll never hear the last of how I was stupid enough to heave the lead at the head of 66.”     “Well, no, you won’t, maybe. In fact I hope you won’t; for I want you to learn something by that experience. Didn’t you know there was no bottom in that crossing?”      “Yes, sir, I did.” You will write one well-developed paragraph of at least 7-8 sentences. In your paragraph, identify one major idea in the memoir "A Cub Pilot." Then identify one sentence in the passage that directly develops or refines that main idea. Explain how that sentence develops the main idea you identified. Make sure you are using specific evidence from the "A Cub Pilot" to support your ideas. PLEASE HELP ME I NEED IT DONE TODAY.

Answer 1

Not many people know that Mark Twain is a pseudonym the writer’s real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens, from now on referred to as Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri in November the 30th 1835. Twain was considered the father of North-American literature.

Twain wrote many novels and stories but the most famous are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), and “the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

In his novel “A Cub Pilot” he tells an autobiographic story about him wanting to be a steamboat pilot. At the beginning of the story Twain is presented as an apprentice cub pilot working on a steamboat. The second character is Brown who is a pro pilot also working on the same boat. The two characters have a conflict from the start because Brown likes to pick on weaker and smarter boys. The problems grow due to the differences between the two characters. Twain and Brown have some differences and similarities in regards to their position. Twain is an apprentice, a cub pilot, and Brown is the boss, the pilot. Twain is under Brown to learn a few skills and Brown usually abuses the power; Twain is under stress because Brown keeps irritating him. Although Twain wanted to kill Brown, he had to hold back because he is a co-pilot. Nonetheless, Brown and Twain are both passionate in their job. That is why neither of them wanted to leave the ship.

The main idea of the passage from “A Cub Pilot” is that sometimes, no matter how smart you are, how many times you have practiced and done something, when you are under pressure, nervous or in a hurry; it is really difficult to see things for what they really are. It does not matter how experienced you can be, everybody can commit mistakes one in a while when under a lot of pressure. Sometimes you cannot see what you have seen before in equal circumstances. It a phenomenon I have coined as “Pressure Blindness”.

The sentence that can define my thesis is:

“I suppose I’ll never hear the last of how I was stupid enough to heave the lead at the head of 66.”

By stating this twain tries to explain how unbelievably blind, or stupid as he presents it, he was not to realize that everything he was doing was nonsense.