You have read the passage adapted from “The First Night at Sea,” which focuses on the narrator’s first night aboard a sailboat on a two-year journey. Write a continuation of the passage that describes what happens next. Be sure to use what you have learned about the setting, characters, and plot of the passage.

It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range recovery, that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range reform. on the other hand, even wise and necessary reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate recovery. what is the purpose of the transitional phrase on the other hand in this excerpt? a) it provides a counter-argument to the writer's main ideas. b) it provides a hypothetical situation for the reader to ponder. c) it provides additional evidence in favor of the writer's argument. d) it provides information about laws that are opposed to the writer's argument.