The answer is B. "He asked himself where it had come from and how; the past provided no explanation, and the future could not justify it."
This option is not a dark humor because it does not show the opposite side of happiness. The other choices explain that although there is happiness, he considered it as a burden- making it a dark humor.
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The main difference between myth and folktale is that the myth is a traditional or legendary story usually explaining some historical phenomenon or religious concept while the folktale is a fictional story passed down through generations. ... However, both myths and folktales are genres of fictions in any culture
If the question is about the words "scuttled off" then the accurate answer would be imagery, more specifically, kinesthetic imagery, that is to say, imagery related to the vivid significance of the movement of the crab that implies both a physical gesture that reveals an emotional movement associated to that gesture. In literature, this is called "from motion to emotion". In this particular case, the movement of scuttling off implies that the patience of the crab is about to meet its limits and because the crab does no longer want to be subjected to an uncomfortable situation it translates its emotion into the motion of leaving. Furthermore, the following use of direct speech right after this motion completes the cycle of emotion to motion and then back to emotion.
