The frame narrative's influence on truth is best described as:

• A. It guarantees an objective truth.
• B. The frame narrative influences readers' sense of truth by inviting reflection on truth as shaped by memory and perspective.
• C. It dismisses memory as unreliable.
• D. It reveals every event with exact precision.

Answer: (B)

A frame narrative emphasizes that truth is filtered through memory and perspective rather than being a simple, objective record. When an older or outside narrator recounts past events, their recollections are shaped by time, guilt, biases, and what they choose to notice or emphasize. This distance invites readers to question how much of what they’re hearing reflects actual events and how much reflects the narrator’s present interpretation. Because memory is reconstructive and perspective varies, the frame narrative nudges readers to consider multiple possible truths and to see truth as something negotiated between what happened, how it’s remembered, and who is telling the story. It doesn’t promise precise, faultless facts, and it doesn’t discard memory; instead, it foregrounds memory and point of view as the driving forces shaping what we come to believe about the past.