That the paper is talking about Brazil politics
Because she was treated like a ranch hand and expected to work on the farm and she wasn't really given any freedoms for her first marriage and her second marriage started off good but her husband later became abusive beating her and calling her names. Neither of these marriages she could really leave because she wouldn't have anywhere to go and once she did then she left.
Noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others. It's a vast subject so we can get into specifics if you know exactly what you want...maybe examples of cause and effect
The introduction and the history of the talisman is the initial rising action in the W. W. Jacobs short story, "The Monkey's Paw." The Whites inherit the paw from their acquaintance, Sergeant-Major Morris, who reveals the mysterious past of the shriveled hand. When he throws it into the fireplace, Mr. White retrieves it. Morris warns them to wish wisely before leaving for the night.
The rising action continues as Mr. White makes his first wish.
"I wish for two hundred pounds," said the old man distinctly.
Mr. White feels the paw move, and a depressing feeling of uneasiness falls upon the family for the remainder of the night. The next morning, Mr. and Mrs. White are paid a visit from the company where their son, Herbert, works. He has been killed in a grisly accident--"caught in the machinery"--and the Whites are offered a compensation of 200 pounds. Although it could be argued that this is the climax to the story, the action actually continues to rise a bit longer as the Whites exercise their second wish--for Herbert to be alive again. The rising action peaks when the Whites realize that their less-than-specific wish has an alternate possibility--that Herbert may be revived but in his deathly, crippled state.