So the people complained again, and the king banished both the lightning and the thunder from the earth and made them live in the sky, where they could not cause so much destruction. Ever since, when the lightning is angry, he commits damage as before, but you can hear his mother, the thunder, rebuking him and telling him to stop. Sometimes, however, when the mother has gone away some distance from her naughty son, you can still see that he is angry and is doing damage, but his mother's voice cannot be heard.
How does the author's choice to end the story with this paragraph cause the reader to view the story's two main characters?
A) It makes the reader think that Thunder has finally gotten the upper hand.
B) It make the reader think that Lightning no longer gets scolded by Thunder.
C) It makes the reader see that the relationship between Thunder and Lightning has not changed at all.
D) It makes the reader suspect that Lightning and Thunder no longer matter to anyone.