How does the narration affect Oskar's credibility in this excerpt?

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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.

The answer is " His efforts to heal render him earnest and genuine."