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Which details does the author use in "August Heat" to develop the theme that extreme weather conditions influence human behavior?

Select each correct answer.

Responses

“'Everything is hot and glary outside,' I said. 'This seems an oasis in the wilderness.”

“'Everything is hot and glary outside,' I said. 'This seems an oasis in the wilderness.”,

"The one thing of which I was fully conscious was the awful heat, that came up from the dusty asphalt pavement as an almost palpable wave."
"The one thing of which I was fully conscious was the awful heat, that came up from the dusty asphalt pavement as an almost palpable wave."

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

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

"There seemed nothing in the man strong enough to sustain that mountain of flesh."

"The one thing of which I was fully conscious was the awful heat, that came up from the dusty asphalt pavement as an almost palpable wave."

"The heat is stifling. It is enough to send a man mad."