It was the first permanent English colony in the new world. The colony seemed about to fail from the start. The settlers did not plant their crops in time so they soon had no food. Their leaders lacked the farming and building skills needed to survive on the land.
Aaron uses the emotional display in his mother's face to judge the situation and went to the mother to pick him since she was all smiling. Aaron is demonstrating social referencing. Infant start using this from when they are about 8 months old.
