After listening to chapter 22 of days of God so many short Response to this prompt: What challenges Jason facing at this point in the story? If you were Jason how would you handle this challenge?

James withencroft's and charles atkinson's actions develop a theme in “august heat” when:

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.

this text from the short story depicts what withencroft drew:

"it showed a criminal in the dock immediately after the judge had pronounced sentence. the man was fat—enormously fat. the flesh hung in rolls about his chin; it creased his huge, stumpy neck. he was clean shaven (perhaps i should say a few days before he must have been clean shaven) and almost bald. he stood in the dock, his short, clumsy fingers clasping the rail, looking straight in front of him. the feeling that his expression conveyed was not so much one of horror as of utter, absolute collapse. "

this text from the short story depicts what atkinson made:

"the inscription which i read for the first time was this—

sacred to the memory 
of 
james clarence withencroft 
born jan. 18th, 1860 
he passed away very suddenly 
on august 20th, 19— 

“in the midst of life we are in death.”"

each man have not seen nor met each other in any circumstance. they only drew and wrote what they did based on their inspiration.