Which statements best explain how the theme develops over the course of the narrative?
select each correct answer.

a. the narrators each discuss leaving their old hobbies behind in favor of better hobbies, developing a theme about the importance of changing hobbies occasionally to avoid getting bored.

b. the narrators each discuss doubting their friendship and fearing how their friends would respond to it, suggesting a theme about trust being important in new relationships.

c. the two narrators’ friendship begins tentatively and grows, suggesting a theme about how people who seem to have little in common can grow together.

d. the internet posts at the end of each paragraph evolve as the friendship strengthens, hinting that the characters’ changing views of each other are important to the theme.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator