Question

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes, but I couldn’t sleep, not after hours, and it made my boots lighter to be around his things, and to touch stuff that he had touched, and to make the hangers hang a little straighter, even though I knew it didn’t matter. How does the narration affect Oskar’s credibility in this excerpt?

A) His insomnia renders him sleep deprived and confused.B) His efforts to heal render him earnest and genuine.C) His obsessive straightening makes him seem unstable.D) His hopeless resignation makes him seem desperate.

Answer 1

B) His efforts to heal render him earnest and genuine.

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt shows that the speaker is nervous, anxious and apprehensive, so he begins to do random things in an attempt to calm down and take his thoughts away from what is making him nervous. The speaker's efforts to calm down make him sincere and genuine and this makes the reader identify with and feel represented in the work, as readers are likely to have gone through similar situations and sought to do the same trivial things to calm down.