Sentence Correction (SC) | To portray virtue as a function of simplicity by using the "

To portray virtue as a function of simplicity by using the "noble savage" image, according to which the nature of a being is naive and, therefore, noble, is following in a long tradition of chroniclers, from Columbus to Steinbeck.

A) and, therefore, noble, is following in
B) and, so, noble, was following
C) and, therefore, noble, is to follow in
D) but also noble, was to follow
E) but is noble as well, is following in