The topic sentence is usually the first sentence
The purpose of this passage is to provide instructions on how to make tortillas; therefore it is an instructive type of text. One of the most common types of instructive texts is recipes. Recipes indicate step by step how to make a specific food. In this example, we can see how sequence connectors “next” and “finally” add cohesion to the text and relates the previous step with the other.
Answer: It reinforces the idea that all people, not just the speaker's father, should fight against death.
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