A plan for finding books
Read the entire original fictional passage: 「図書委員になった私は、新しい本を目立つ場所に並べた。ところが、友人は『読みたい本がどこにあるか分からない』と言った。私は初め、その言葉を少し残念に思った。しかし、友人と一緒に棚を回るうちに、自分には当たり前の分類が、初めて来た人には分かりにくいのだと気づいた。翌週、私は棚の案内を作り直した。」 The exercise does not state that borrowing increased afterward or that the friend intended to criticize the narrator personally. Students must trace the narrator's change in understanding and explain the function of the contrasting turns. Keep the eventual action distinct from a measured outcome, because no outcome data are supplied. Identify the observation that leads the narrator to reconsider the first interpretation.
1. How does the narrator's understanding change?
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Initial disappointment at the friend's comment changes into recognition that familiar classifications can be unclear to newcomers. Walking through the shelves together supports that change.
2. Can the passage establish that the revised signs increased borrowing?
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No. It states that the narrator revised the signs, but gives no borrowing figures or later result. That further claim would add evidence not supplied.