The option that best summarizes the main point of including information about the earlier colony of Sir Walter Raleigh is:
A. To introduce one source of the settlers' fears.
Explanation:
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<em>Those who shared in this new venture must have wondered if a like fate awaited them in this strange new land.</em>
The author's purpose in including information about the earlier colony of Sir Walter Raleigh is to introduce one source of fear of the new settlers. <u>The author believes the settlers certainly asked themselves about what had happened to the previous party sent to the New World. Not knowing what their fate had been added to the settlers' fears. They wondered if the same - whatever it was - would happen to them. Notice that, once they arrived, those same questions arose again. At first fascinated by the beauty of the country, the settlers soon began to think of the dangers that lurked all around them.</u>
