Read the excerpt from "An Hour with Abuelo."
What a waste of a fine mind." Then she usually shrugs her shoulders and says, "Así es la vida." That's the way life is. It sometimes makes me mad that the adults I know just accept whatever is thrown at them because "that's the way things are."
Which words in the excerpt create a resigned tone?
mad, thrown
shrugs, accept
waste, whatever
fine, mind