Which purpose is common to the excerpt from Of Plymouth Plantation and “Coming of Age in the Dawnland”?

To portray the Native Americans as peaceful, civilized, and willing to help others for the common good

To portray the Native Americans as unlike Europeans and wanting only to be left alone

To show the negative impact that European colonization was having on the Native Americans

To show Europeans the true warlike and defensive nature of the Native Americans

The common theme (or purpose) in the excerpt from "Of Plymouth Plantation" by Governor William Bradford (1651) and "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" by Charles C. Mann is C. To show the negative impact ...

Charles C. Mann claimed that the Native Americans were evolving and already civilized before the coming of the Europeans, perhaps more civilized than the Europeans. The Europeans destroyed the culture and civilization of the Natives, according to Mann.

"Of Plymouth Plantation" portrayed the colonization and civilization of the Native Americans, who were met as savages, while Mann's "Coming of Age in the Dawnland" showed that the Europeans were more savage than the Native Americans. The Natives welcome the Europeans but the Europeans destroyed the relationship that could have been forged in the meeting of the two civilizations.

Thus, the excerpt's purpose is to show the negative impact of European colonization on the Natives.

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