I believe that its medal. Jake is the subject and showed is the verb the direct object has to be medal.
Your correct answer should be B by the way im looking and analyzing it.
In American Romantic Literature the “journey” means "leaving civilization and entering the universe of nature".
The American Romantic period, which kept going from around 1830-70, was a period of quick extension and development in the U S that energized intuition, creative ability and independence in writing. This writing esteems feeling and intuition over reason.