Passage Explanation

I chose this passage due to the fact that it portrayed the Narragansetts as wise since they used strategic thinking. Although the Pequots tried to persuade them to join their side in the situation, they remembered how the Pequots had harmed them before. Considering this previous encounter, the Narragansetts decided to join with the Englishmen. They used common sense thinking and decided, "well why would we work with our enemy when we can work against them with somebody that has never even done anything to us". The choice that they had to make was very difficult because they had the Indians, which they were familiar with, and then they had all these strange, new faces as their other option. This one intelligent choice showed me that the Narragansetts were very smart people because they actually thought before they acted.