Answer:
Feeling mistreated, Tom resolves to act on his earlier impulse to become a pirate. He meets Joe Harper, who is likewise disaffected because his mother has wrongly accused and punished him for stealing cream.
Explanation:
'Apace' basically means with great speed, rapid movement, etc. Since you didn't include the passage, it's up to you to apply the definition in the context given.
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I cannot write the full story for you, but I can give some recommendations.
You can understand "trapped" metaphorically and you can describe a family that had to spend a lot of money on the medical treatment of their child and now they have to work hard to pay their debt. They cannot change a job since they would risk loosing their payment, and so they are "trapped" in their life.
the elements of formal writing style are
- diction (otherwise known as word choice)
- sentence structure and syntax
- nature of figurative language
- rhythm and component sounds
- rhetorical patterns
- using the active voice
- literal and concrete language
- concision (otherwise known as eliminating redundancy)
