She thought of her last day in middle school, seven years ago, when Sarah had given her an iPod. She had felt ecstatic that day when she realized she would be able to listen to her favorite songs and fend off comments from her cousins about how little she knew about music.
This allows the reader to see the early influences on a character by performing events from his childhood early on.
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He used cause and effect to explain the events in Alabama.
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