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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: One morning, just at daybreak, the last trip she ever made, they took
her rudder aboard to mend it; I didn't know anything about it; I backed
her out from the wood-yard and went a-weaving down the river all serene.
When I had gone about twenty-three miles, and made four horribly crooked
crossings----'
'Without any rudder?'
'Yes--old Capt. Tom appeared on the roof and began to find fault
with me for running such a dark night--'
'Such a DARK NIGHT ?--Why, you said----'
'Never mind what I said,--'twas as dark as Egypt now, though pretty
soon the moon began to rise, and----'
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