Question

Write a paragraph about the role that nature played in the early American settlements and how this influenced literary themes. Your answer should be at least 100 words.

Answer 1

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, nature played a significant role in the survival of the people of the New World. They didn’t have grocery stores or farmers markets, so settlers relied on nature to provide them with their necessities. Nature became a prominent theme in literary works during this time. It allowed the settlers to survive in a way they hadn’t before, but it also brought new dangers that they now had to face. Some authors wrote of the more beautiful and majestic aspects of nature, while others wrote of the evils and terrors of the natural world. Many merely described what they saw.

Answer 2

Nature in American settlements played, arguably, the biggest role. When they came to settle, they needed to hunt. The animals differed because of what they ate. They needed homes, and the trees were different. They built homes out of nature and they hunted the food so they wouldn't starve. There were medicinal plants, too. While they could not have cured A before, they can now, while B was easy to fix before, they don't have C to treat it, and D and E were poisonous. Their lives were changed because of nature. They may or may not have lived comfortably before, but now, they needed to survive, and nature provided them challenges, but a way to survive.