What is the effect of the author jumping ahead many years in the following sentence? “After that, we didn’t play by the well anymore, even when we were much older, we didn’t go back.” (Paragraph 5)?
A. It emphasizes how traumatic the event was for the kids because they are no longer friends many years later.
B. It emphasizes how traumatic the event was for the man in the well because he will not speak to the kids, even years later.
C. It emphasizes how traumatic the event was for the man in the well because he will not return to the well, even years later.
D. It emphasizes how traumatic the event was for the kids because they are still thinking about the man in the well years later.