What is the central idea of "The Tiger's Whisker"? • Yun Ok asks the hermit for a potion to give to her husband so he will be loving and gentle the way he used to be.

• Yun Ok spends months trying to win the trust ofing dangerous tiger, so she can get one of its whiskers for a potion.

• Yun Ok is worried about her husband after he returns home from the war and wonders if he will ever be loving and gentle
again

• Yun Ok learns from the hermit that to win her husband's love again, she must treat her husband the same way she treated the
tiger

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usually, a falcon can kill an owl, and horses don't normally eat each other.

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.