Select the correct text in the passage. Aaliyah is writing an essay on how to break in a baseball glove. Which two signal words
or phrases help to identify the text structure she chose to use? I started playing T-ball when I was three years old, and I’ve been playing ever since. For many years, I had a glove that I loved to use. It was broken in perfectly—not stiff at all. Unfortunately, the glove fell apart during a game; therefore, I found myself needing to break in a new one. I researched several methods and chose the best one for the job. Here’s the method that I found to work the best: After washing your hands, start applying glove oil all over your glove with a cloth. You need to really work on the area around the pocket and along the laces. Allow the glove to dry before going on to the next step. Place a baseball or softball in the pocket of the glove. Then wrap it with rubber bands to keep it in place. You still might end up with creases in your glove. To solve this problem, you should be careful not to wrap the glove too tight or allow the bands to be too loose.
Aaliyah chose the Problem and Solution text structure which states a problem and provides one or more possible solutions. This pattern separates data into two main: the description of the problem and the recommended solution.
In this example, the problem is explained first ("Unfortunately, the glove fell apart during a game"), as related to the need to break in a baseball glove. Then, there´s a possible solution provided for that problem ("To solve this problem, you should be careful not to wrap the glove too tight or allow the bands to be too loose").
This detail exemplifies the larger theme of the futility of human efforts to dominate nature. The entire novel revolves around that theme - whether Ahab as a human is capable of dominating Moby Dic, which is a whale and thus a representative of nature. Nature seems to be winning constantly and humans are ultimately unable to conquer it because nature is unconquerable. <span />
