The second reason that Scene 5 is pivotal is because Abigail exerts her power and begins her quest to obtain Proctor. Unsurprisingly, Titubaconfesses to witchcraft when the townspeople threaten her with physical violence. She is a black female slave, an individual without any power.
From these answers, I think that the best one would be "It shows that the writer's memory is imperfect and sets up the reason for the trip. It is not the first one, because it is just a guess that he is old. It is not the second one, because the writer knows how to write, just not what to write about. It is not the final one, because in the text it does not say that memory is a better source of writing.
Edits/revises/improves. Also, you have a lot of double and triple spaces.
