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(10) Once the pile of splits became big enough to sit on, she did. (11) She sat with her long legs close beneath her, booted feet spread wide, pulled headphones from a pocket and clamped them over her ears then turned on The Sounds of Tranquil Shores. (12) While frosty 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 pleasant sounds, stab those sounds past the constant screeching, squalling hubbub regular life raised inside her spirit, poke the soothing sounds past that racket and down deep where her jttering soul paced on a stone slab 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 the wind slowed and big snowflakes began falling as serenely as anything could fall the distance from the sky. (17) Ree listened to lapping waves of far shores gathered on her. (18) She sat unmoving and let snow etch her outline in deepening clean whiteness. while snowflakes From Daniel Woodrell. Winter's Bone.92006 by Daniel Woodre Question The description in the first paragraph (sentences 1-9) suggests that Ree is

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The second paragraph suggests that Ree listens to "ocean sounds" and other recordings in order to escape from the reality of the world she lives in