Question

it is easy to write the line people starve to death; it is much harder to deal with the harsh reality. but you need to understand this point, if only to see how little choice you might have in what you eat. the itinerant poor might literally die in the street. the following examples show how famine hits the cumberland parish of greystoke. here a poor fellow destitute of succor is found in the highway and is carried to the constables house, where he dies. a millers daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food. -the time travelers guide to elizabethan england, ian mortimer how does the passage develop the central idea food was valuable due to the limitations of local resources? it explains that the poor starved to death as a result of a shortage in the food supply. it compares the elizabethan food supply to the modern - day food supply. it describes cumberland parish of greystoke, where most of the food came from.

Explanation:

The passage gives examples of people (a poor fellow and a miller's daughter) dying due to lack of food. This directly shows that food was scarce (a shortage in the food supply) and thus valuable because of local resource limitations (as people couldn't get enough food). There is no comparison to modern - day food supply. Also, the description of Cumberland parish of Greystoke is just the location where the examples of starvation (due to food shortage) took place, not about where the food came from.

Answer:

It explains that the poor starved to death as a result of a shortage in the food supply.