Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? “That snake would pay for preying on helpless victims! The tabby sprang for the coiled serpent like a bolt of striped lightning!”

“The magician awoke with the snake’s dying hiss. He found the injured cat lying nearby and guessed what she had done.”

“He’d been traveling forever, it seemed. So when he spotted a tree with gnarled roots, he had to lie down among them to rest.”

“The snake recalled that this was the very man who had surprised it sometime earlier, just when the snake was about to dine on a tabby cat for breakfast.”

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.