Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story. How do James Withencroft's and Charles Atkinson's actions develop a theme in “August Heat”?

Withencroft walks to the home of stone carver, Charles Atkinson. Atkinson invites him in but sharpens a knife, making Withencroft feel threatened. This develops the theme that people should be wary of kind strangers.

Withencroft draws a picture of a man being sentenced for a terrible crime. The man turns out to be Atkinson who, by chance, has carved Withencroft's headstone. This develops the theme that some coincidences defy explanation.

Withencroft describes the most remarkable day of his life while Atkinson goes about his day as he would any other. This develops the theme that people should live each day to the fullest.

Withencroft works all day to draw the best picture of his life. Atkinson works all day to create a tombstone to show his customers. This develops the theme that at the end of the day, hard work is its own reward.

Writers try to let us know what is central to their writing. when we notice words such as "meanwhile," "afterward," "before," or "previously," an author is letting us know the order in which events happen. a paragraph that mostly uses these key words is arranged in what structural form?

Tell whomever you meet about this new opportunity. the bolded words are what kind of clause?

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.