(10) Once the pile of splits became big enough to sit on, she did. (11) She sat with her long legs close
beneath her, booted feet spread wide, pulled headphones from a pocket and clamped them over her
ears, then turned on The Sounds of Tranquil Shores. (12) While frosty bits gathered in her hair and on her
shoulders she raised the volume of those ocean sounds. (13) Ree needed often to inject herself with
pleasant sounds, stab those sounds past the constant screeching, squalling hubbub regular life raised
inside her spirit, poke the soothing sounds past that racket and down deep where her jittering soul
paced on a stone slab in a gray room, agitated and endlessly provoked but yearning to hear something
that might bring a moment's rest. (14) The tapes had been given to Mom who already heard too many
puzzling sounds and did not care to confront these, but Ree tried them and felt something unknot. (15)
She also favored The Sounds of Tranquil Streams, The Sounds of Tropical Dawn, and Alpine Dusk.

The second paragraph (sentences 10-15) suggests that Ree listens to “ocean sounds” and other recordings in order to