The story begins with a panoramic view of the Salinas Valley in winter, which is very common in various of Steinbeck's stories. When Elisa is planting her chrysanthemums, her husband shows up to talk to her after he made a deal selling some head of cattle to the Western Meat Company.
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This paragraph does a couple of things for the piece.
1. It introduces the types of stress teens face. (Sentence 1)
2. It introduces the main subject matter of the piece. (Sentence 2, "And" to "cope")
3. It backs up the claim of the piece by supporting it with factual evidence of sited sources.(the rest of sentence 2.)