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assumptions, evidence, reasoning, and viewpoint/tone
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It can be considered a memoir, Elizabeth P. Donner Houghton's rememberings of her childhood experiences on the Donner wagon train headed out west to California, in retrospect from the standpoint of an adult writing about them from memory.
Facts, relevant information, and the picture should be interested.
Your answer would be A. white men.
Explanation: Before Postmodernism the authors that made up the literary canon in the United States were mostly white men.