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The following text is from a memoir.
My grandmother taught me to swim by refusing to teach me. She stood in the shallows with her arms folded and said the water would hold me if I let it, and that she would not. I learned in an afternoon, furious, and have never forgotten the lesson or forgiven the method.
Which choice best describes what the text conveys about the narrator's view of the grandmother's method?
- A. The narrator acknowledges that it worked while still resenting it.Correct
- B. The narrator is grateful and has no complaints.
- C. The narrator believes the method failed.
- D. The narrator has forgotten the experience.
Answer: A. The narrator acknowledges that it worked while still resenting it.
'Never forgotten the lesson or forgiven the method': it worked, and the anger remains.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The narrator is grateful and has no complaints.
- 'Nor forgiven the method.'
- C. The narrator believes the method failed.
- The narrator 'learned in an afternoon'.
- D. The narrator has forgotten the experience.
- 'Never forgotten.'
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