Which statement best describes the narrative's treatment of memory and healing?

• A. Memory provides definitive answers.
• B. Memory's fragility allows ongoing healing and uncertainty.
• C. Memory is dismissed as irrelevant.
• D. Memory is constantly corrected by an objective narrator.

Answer: (B)

Memory is treated as fragile and subjective, not as a flawless archive of events. The narrative suggests memories shift with time, emotion, and personal growth, so they don’t provide neat, final answers about what happened. This fragility keeps healing as an ongoing process: the past is revisited, meanings are reinterpreted, and understanding evolves rather than arriving at a single, definitive conclusion. Because healing is framed as something that unfolds over time with uncertainty, the story emphasizes growth that continues rather than a tidy resolution.

If memory were a definitive source of answers, healing would feel settled and complete, which the text does not depict. If memory were dismissed as irrelevant, the past wouldn’t shape the present or the healing journey. If an objective narrator constantly corrected memory, the personal, lived texture of recollection would disappear and the sense that memory can be fallible and evolving would be lost.