Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story. Which lines from "August Heat" support the theme that people's lives are predetermined?
SELECT EACH CORRECT ANSWER

a. "It showed a criminal in the dock immediately after the judge had pronounced sentence."

b. "From there onwards I have only the vaguest recollection of where I went."

c. "A sudden impulse made me enter."

d. "But the heat is stifling. It is enough to send a man mad."

e. "I told him my address. It would take an hour's quick walk to get back home."

The short story "August Heat" written by W.F Harvey and first published in 1910, has the main theme that people's lives are predetermined. The following lines support this theme: "It showed a criminal in the dock immediately after the judge had pronounced sentence". This sentence supports the concept of predestination as James Clarence Withencroft drew a man that was a criminal standing in the dock, and will later on enter a shop and find that same man seating in there. Considering the man was a completely stranger at the time James drew him, and a mere product of what he thought was imagination or inspiration, the fact that he was, in deed a real person, talks about predestination. The other line "A sudden impulse made me enter" is much more direct, as it talks about a sudden impulse the character has to enter into a place, where he will meet the man from his drawing.