A life hack is a strategy that helps you do something better or with greater ease, and that would probably also help others if they knew about it. Sometimes “shortcut” is used as a synonym. A life hack can be anything from a practical piece of advice (like the tip that you should always have certain items in the trunk of your car in case of an emergency) to a stratagem to use in social contexts (like a mnemonic device for remembering the name of someone you have just met) to a philosophical notion (like the belief that “good things come to those who wait”).
What are some of your favorite life hacks?
In the Opinion essay “The Greatest Life Hacks in the World (for Now),” David Brooks compiles a list that begins:
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This question is about the short story "The Wife's Story", by Ursula K. le Guin.
Answer:
What causes the wife to question her husband is:
C The youngest child rejects her father. ( Paragraph 6)
Explanation:
The narrator in "The Wife's Story" is a female werewolf. However, that is only revealed at the end of the story. The author deceives readers, giving hints all along but still making it seem that the narrator is human.
The narrator's husband begins to go out to hunt in broad daylight. At first, that did not bother her. She only begins to be a little annoyed by it because of the way he smells when he comes back home. Suspicion takes a while to come to her mind. It is when his behavior and something in his eyes change, when their little child rejects her father, screaming in fear of him, that the narrator finally questions the whole situation.
Upon waking up one day and realizing he is missing, she goes outside and sees him transforming into a human. She and other werewolves end up killing him.
The paragraph is a spiritual discomfort, where the narrator is disturbed and has bad and bitter feelings, which consume him and make him think of bad things. This is a strong characteristic of Gothic literature, as it reinforces distressing, damaging sessions that do not promote well-being.
The paragraph, on the other hand, shows the suffering caused by bitterness and revenge, which again reinforces the elements of Gothic literature in dealing with the psychological in order to express bad feelings, emotions and sensations and how their expression causes problems to all who are present in history.
