The correct answer is letter D: <span>a note from a traveler who had gone on the marked trail, telling them to take a different and safer route if they could.
The Donner Party was a group of American Pioneers who headed out to California and followed a different route by wagons. They ended up being stuck in the blizzard, resulting to the lost of their supplies and eventually into cannibalism. Along the trail they saw letters stuck in trees that they need to take a different and safer route in order for them to get where they are headed, but the group did not heed the message and still pursued their path which lead to their own demise.</span>
'Feeling blue' means that a person is sad, or depressed.
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The reason a character thinks, feels, or acts a specific way is called character motivation.
Character motivation is the reason behind a character's behaviors and actions in a given scene or throughout a story.
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