Read the excerpt from "The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean.”

The bean, who had prudently stayed behind on the shore, could not but laugh at the event, was unable to stop, and laughed so heartily that she burst. It would have been all over with her, likewise, if, by good fortune, a tailor who was travelling in search of work had not sat down to rest by the brook.

As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together. The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.

Which statement most accurately explains the structure of this passage?

A The author builds up to the most important idea in the story, which is that the bean lives.
B The author uses chronological order to show the history of the bean's experiences.
C The author uses cause and effect to show that the tailor's repair causes the bean to have a black line.
DThe author uses problem and solution to show how the tailor solves the bean's problem of having exploded.

The association of the two events of the bursting of a happy bean and the tailor traveling on the same path the bean has burst on leads the narration to automatically figure out that the tailor is going to help the bean somehow.
The compassionate nature of the tailor has been put an emphasis on so as to convey that it was because the tailor was compassionate, the life of the bean was saved.

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Answer:

C. The author uses cause and effect to show that the tailor's repair causes the bean to have a black line.

Explanation:

The main purpose of this story is to explain the reason why beans have a black seam. In this text, we learn that the reason for this is the fact that once, a bean was laughing so hard that she burst. Luckily, a tailor was able to sew her up using black thread. The author of this text uses cause and effect in order to show the cause of the problem, and the effect that this had on beans.