Read the excerpt from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears." After working for nine years peddling dry goods in Virginia, Diab returned to Lebanon where he married Mary Ramah and had two children. Which statement best describes the text structure of this sentence and explains why it is used?

1. A compare-and-contrast text structure is used to show that Virginia is different from Lebanon.
2. A sequence text structure is used to describe an order of events in Diab Thomas's life.
3. A cause-and-effect text structure is used to explain why Diab Thomas married Mary Ramah.
4 .A compare-and-contrast text structure is used to show how Diab Thomas's children are alike.