the answer is determination because both are talking about moral rules we can obey as human
What is the topic of said essay? I 'd be happy to help.
Answer:
They did not know many things about the indians. They only knew that they were very different from them, looked different, had other customs, and had a different religion.
Precisely because of this last aspect: religious differences, the pilgrims did not have a very positive opinion of the indians. Pilgrims were very close-minded, because they believed that the calivnist version of protestant christianity was the only valid form of religion.
It is significant to the story because California is the setting and all the events in the text takes place there.