Although your question does not give very much context regarding what was happening in that specific piece of literature,
The idea that nearby women were making fun of/snickering at the protagonist in the text suggests that she is not well-liked. It also could suggest that the women who were snickering are the antagonists/ are mean to her.
Arsat plans to seek revenge, the white man tuan is leaving the lagoon and urges arsat to come with him, but arsat refuses, arsat los diamelen and fights them on behalf of his brother.._hope this helps!_
Shrewd means smart, catching onto things quickly and/or observing something.
Sentence example: "She was shrewd enough to guess the reasons behind his lies."
Answer:
The tip of my pencil broke because I put a lot of pressure on writing. If I keep writing hard, I will continue to break the ends of my pencils.
Explanation:
First, you need to understand that a sentence that shows a cause and effect relationship is one that exhibits a situation that has occurred as a result of another situation. In the case of the above sentence, when I say that the tip of my pencil broke because of the pressure I used to write, that I am saying that the break of the pencil tip was the effect caused because of the pressure that I wrote.
In addition, you need to understand what "transitions are." They are quite simple to identify, as they are words or phrases that link the two ideas of the sentence. In the case of the sentence shown above, the word "because" is the transition.