The fact that people's lives are beyond their own control.
You didn’t give any options. Therefore, I can not answer. You said “which choice” but did not not give any choices.
Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers or it may follow in the next sentence. A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.
D I believe. Seems to be the only relevant.
C. to give information, is the purpose for the author in writing this passage.