Answer: Classification would best respond to this prompt. Hope this helps!
At first, Miri keeps getting into trouble for talking back, even costing the other girls a visit home when she talks back to Tutor Olana (which makes everyone hate her). The only person who seems willing to talk to Miri is Britta, a girl who just moved to Mount Eskel from the lowlands (after her parents died) and is shunned by the other girls because they assume that she thinks she's better than them.
After some time though, Miri starts to excel at her lessons. She finds that she loves to read and spends all of her free time in the classroom going through Tutor Olana's books and reading about the history of Danland. She also starts to figure out how to use quarry-speech—the way that villagers communicate with each other silently when they're working in the quarries.
She often hears the other girls—especially an older girl named Katar—talking about how annoying she is, but Miri ignores them and continues to excel in her lessons. When it comes time for spring holiday, Tutor Olana springs an exam on the girls and says that only the girls who pass will be able to go home. Miri and Katar pass, but Miri thinks that it's unfair for the other girls to have to stay behind, so she uses quarry-speech to tell them all to run, and they scamper back to the village even though Tutor Olana protests.
Answer:
Kira Salak was born in Chicago. She made a career out of writing, and travelling as a journalist. She is famed for engaging in 'high risk' travels in order to report stories.
Salak cited several reasons as the motivational factors which spurred her journeys:
She has discovered that it came naturally to her and she was passionate about it. Towards the end of her life as a teen, she had serendipitously come to the knowledge of how deeply traveling held her fancy. She, while studying abroad, had gotten an Eurail passport (that is a passport that allows one to travel to Europe by rail). She took the opportunity to go through all of Europe by herself. This experience triggered something that changed here for life.
She discovered that unlike the common folk, going to places considered to be high-risk was very natural to her. She is quoted to have said her fear meter of such places is very low. She, for instance, said that she wouldn't give a second thought to jumping on a plane and traveling to West Africa.
She went because of the story. She had traveled countries that were at that time raging with war. When asked if she was not afraid, her response was "I did it for the story". She believed that someone needed to tell the world what was happening in those places. Taking a helicopter view of it all, one could estimate that Salak found purpose in bringing to the world, knowledge about what was happening in places where journalists were usually afraid to go.
Many of her works have been published in reputable magazines such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Backpacker.
Cheers!
