The purpose of damages in a breach of contract action is which one of the following:

a)to make the victim whole.

b)to place the victim in the place she was before the contract occurred.

c)to pay for any costs the victim expended for the contract.

d)to only punish the breaching party.

e)to place the victim, through the payment of money, in the same position he would have been if the contract had been completed.