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.

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.