did you lend your pen?? we are all dying to know.
The devil, who is later referred to as Old Scratch carves the names of the people he makes deals with into the trees. Those whose names are carved into the tress, having made a deal with old scratch, are those who have sold their souls to the devil.
An argument does not have to controversial: it just refers to someone taking a stand, arguing for or against something. It does not have to be in opposition to other people's ideas either.
So now we have two options left:
writing that takes a specific perspective
and
<span>writing to explain a writers ideas on a topic
I find both of them not perfect: I would rather say that an argument is a claim, or a statement, that needs to be supported. But from the two I think the better one is </span><span>writing to explain a writers ideas on a topic (this is the best answer I think) since a perspective can mean a "point of view" and this not what an argument is.</span>
Fire prometheus bestow on humankind