(louisiana purchase, manifest destiny, trail of tears, industrial revolution, civil war and reconstruction) how do you think what was going on in history affected writings that were produced during that time (speeches, journals, pamphlets, autobiographies, etc)

it made more speeches about the things that happened there.

Everyone was trying to gain land for their own country. An doing whatever it took to gain it in the process. Such as killing innocent men, women, and children for their own greed. This was during the time period people acted more as animals then human. Doing anything in their power just to get that extra plot of land.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.