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Passage The main character of this passage from a novel is Ree, a teenager living in the Ozark Mountains in (1) The snow fell first in hard little bits, frosty white bits blown sideways to pelt Ree's face as she raised the ax, swung down, raised it again, splitting wood whio being stung by cold nung from the sky (2) Bits worked inside her neckline and melted against her chest. (3) Ree's hair was shoulder-length and full, with ungovernable loose curls from temples to neck and snow bits gathered in the tangle. (4) Her overcoat was an implacable black and had been Mamaw's, grim old wool battered by decades of howling winter and summer moths. (5) The buttonless coat fell past her knees, below her dress, but draped open and did not hamper her chopping strokes. (6) Her swings were practiced and powerful, short potent whacks. (7) Splinters flew, wood split, the pile grew. (8) Ree's nose ran and the blood came up in her face and made pink on her cheeks (9) She pinched two fingers high on her nose, snorted a splat to the ground, dragged a sleeve across her face, swung the ax again (10) Once the pile of splits became big enough to sit on, she did. (11) She sat with her long legs close beneath hor, booted feet spread wide, puled headphones from a pocket and clamped them over her ears, then turned on The Sounds of Tranquw Shores (12) While trosty bits gathered in her hair and on her shoulders she raised the volume of those ocean sounds (13) Ree needed often to inject herself with t sounds, stab those sounds past the constant screeching, squalling hubbub regular life raised nside her spint, poke the soothing sounds past that racket and down deep where her jittering soul paced in a gray room, agitated and endlessly provoked but yearning to hear something that might bring a moment's rest. (14) The tapes had been given to Mom who already heard too many puzzling sounds and did not care to confront these, but Ree tried them and felt something unknot, (15) She also favored The Sounds of Tranquil Streams, The Sounds of Tropical Dawn, and Alpine Dusk (16) As the frosty bits dwindled could fall the distance from the sky (17) Ree listened to lapping waves of far shores while snowflakes gathered on her (18) She sat unmoving and let snow etch her outline in deepening clean whiteness. From Daner Woodrel, Winter's Bone 02006 by Daniel Woodrel Question The description in the first paragraph (sentences 1-9) suggests that Ree is attentive and fragile o angry and dissatisfied tough and capable somber and hopeless

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Answer: Tough and capable

The description in the first paragraph states that the Ree is tough and capable because although the condition is not in her favour then also she is performing her work.