This question asks you what role the first paragraph plays.
@ The first paragraph introduces subject of what most writers think of the relationship between King and Thoreau, and then he refutes it with two reasons.
Let's get into answer choices.
A) “chronicling” did not happen.
B) “common emphasis” indicates how most writers on Martin Luther King, Jr. make connection with Thoreau. Later part of the first paragraph disputes this conception, clearly presented with "however" (10) Correct
C) The author only talks about one philosopher, Thoreau. Other philosophers like Emerson and Fuller was introduced as some people who have the overlapping points in terms of philosophy, yet not explicitly stated to have influenced King.
D) "the most important influence on King's Philosophy" is not what we have discussed in the context at all.
E) Mainly concerned about King and “Civil Disobedience”’s influence on him. The author didn't get into other transcendentalists in detail.