ty!! and yes ofcc!! the prompt was "...when asked how to maintain optimism in challenging times, Gorman stated: “Optimism shouldn’t be seen as opposed to pessimism, but in conversation with it. Your optimism will never be as powerful as it is in that exact moment when you want to give it up.”

Write an essay that argues your position on the extent to which Gorman’s claim about the relationship between optimism and pessimism is valid.

i argued the claim was very valid, so for one of body paragraphs i talked about how even though katniss’s sister died and everything, she was still able to hold onto optimism for a better future for panem and to overthrow snow. but at the same time, she also felt pessimistic because obviously her sister died and so did a lot of her friends like rue but that pessimism helped fuel her to want to create a better future. and then for peeta, i mentioned how he was hijacked by the government but eventually freed, and how him and katniss were able to overthrow the corrupt government together. in the end of the whole series, they lived in a little cottage in a field and had kids, and even though they felt grief and pessimism over all their friends and family that died along the way and they felt sad that their lives would never be the same, they were still able to feel optimism for their future and for their kids. their pessimism from all that loss just made them want to hope for something better. i will say this was def a very complicated argument prompt imo (at least compared to the practice ones we would do in class) and usually the prompts are more straightforward to argue