"pecola believes that people will love her and treat her differently if she has blue eyes.” defend and prove this statement using evidence from the text.
1. what is the prompt asking us to do?
2. what will we need to include/prove in order to accomplish this task?
3. how do we know that pecola feels unloved? by whom?
4. how do we know that she longs for blue eyes?
5. how do we know that she believes having blue eyes leads to love and happiness? (be sure di*k and jane, mary jane, shirley temple, and maureen all get worked in here) cite text evidence for each.
6. how does this relate to the theme of beauty?

How does crane's depiction of the way information was spread in the nineteenth century affect the novel? crane seeks to use the novel as a way to criticize the journalists of the time for how they glorified war as a means of union propaganda. by depicting the extent to which newspapers were circulated, crane seeks to expose the lack of unbiased reporting at the time. by giving newspapers a major role in the novel, crane seeks to make a connection between the increasing role of the military in national affairs and the decline of farming. crane captures the power of journalistic reports at a time when it was the primary means of transmitting information to a broad audience by showing its influence on henry.