second-person perspective
third-person limited perspective
third-person omniscient perspective
This short story is from the collection of short stories named Unaccustomed Earth which describes Bengali Americans daily culture mix. Once in a Lifetime is a story which Lahiri writes about the disposition typical of an Indian family through the eyes of a young Bengali girl, Hema. She narrates her common childhood memories which shows how they moved from Cambridge to Calcutta and back to Cambridge. Because the story is told by Hema, it is a third-person omniscient perspective. It is omniscient because the protagonist knows all the details about the story since this story is about her childhood memories.
Answer:B.) It’s not good to criticize others because we don’t know what they face in life. The idea is first to try to understand what the motivations are before we engage in criticism.
The first option mentions the limit of three weeks, in the quotation three weeks can be understood as a period to have an understanding of the other's intentions, it is not a number to be interpreted literally.