A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Published on Nov 30, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
THIS IS A COMING OF AGE STORY SET IN THE EARLY 1900S
THEMES ARE NOT SCARCE AND SYMBOLS REIGN FREE
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THE QAULITY OF LIFE IN BROOKLYN DURING THE EARLY 1900S
THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN NOT JUST ABOUT A TREE BUT ABOUT
GIRL NAMED FRANCIE NOLAN WHO LIVES WITH HER FAMILY IN BROOKLYN
THE TRUE MEANING OF THE STORY IS CAPTURED THROUGH THE LIFE OF AN 11 YEAR OLD
OF THE PEOPLE LIVING DURING THIS TIME IN AMERICA
IT IS LUSHLY OVERFLOWING WITH SYMBOLS AND REALITIES
THE BOOK STARTS OFF WITH TALKING ABOUT THE TREE THAT FRANCIE NOLAN, THE MAIN CHARACTER
SEES GROWING OUTSIDE THE TENEMENT WHERE SHE LIVES, THIS TO HER ACTS AS A SYMBOL FOR GOOD DESPITE ALL THE SAD AROUND
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FIRST OFF ALL THE PEOPLE LIVE IN CRAMMED TENEMENTS WHERE QUALITY ISN'T AN OPTION, THESE PEOPLE
WERE SO POOR THAT THEIR CHILDREN, LIKE FRANCIE AND HER BROTHER NEELY HAD TO COLLECT/SELL JUNK FOR CASH
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SOME OF THE PENNIES THE CHILDREN WOULD EARN WOULD BE
SPENT ON THE MANY PENNY STORES THAT LINED THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN
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HOWEVER SOME OF THE MONEY THEY SAVED WOULD GO IN THE PENNY BANK
WHICH WAS A JAR THE FAMILY KEPT TO SAVE MONEY FOR FOOD AND OTHER EXPENSES
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FRANCIE'S MOTHER, KATIE NOLAN IS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, A DESCENDANT OF AUSTRAIN
IMMIGRANTS WHO HAS TO SUPPORT HER FAMILY BY WORKING AS A JANITOR/MAID IN THE TENEMENT
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FRANCIE'S FATHER, JOHNNY NOLAN WAS A WAITOR/SINGER BUT
ALSO A DRUNK AND HAD A HARD TIME BRINGING IN MONEY FOR THE FAMILY
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FRANCIE'S BROTHER, NEELY NOLAN ALTHOUGH A YEAR YOUNGER THAN FRANCIE
WAS THE BOY AND THEREFORE HE TOOK CARE OF THE PENNIES THEY EARNED FROM THE SCRAP JUNK
THE STORY FOLLOWS KATIE FROM A YOUNG AGE ALL THE WAY TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD
WITH STORIES OF HER PARENTS AS WELL , LIKE WHEN THEY MET, IN FLASHBACK STYLE FORM
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REOCCURING THEMES THROUGHOUT THE NOVEL
LOSS, POVERTY AND EDUCATION ARE JUST SOME OF THE MANY THEMES WE CAN SEE IN THE STORY
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A CONSTANT THEME IN THE BOOK IS LOSS
- Francie's family has a loss of money
- Francie's loss of time to act like a kid
- Loss of family memebers
- Francie's loss of innocence
- Francie's loss of faith
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POVERTY
- The family lives in a tenement
- Francie and Neely only ever have enough money to shop at a penny store
- The quality of life is poor because at the time most of America
- In the area was poor and lived like they did to survive
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EDUCATION
- When Francie was born her grandmother would tell Francie's mom to
- Read to her children every night because education is so important
- Katie, Francie's mom tries to get the children piano lessons to expose her children
- To music which is supposed to broaden their educational horizons
- Throughout the story we see education as a way to escape the poverty
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WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
- Immigrants had hard lives during the turn of the twentieth century
- People relied on certain things like candy for the kids and work for the adults as
- A way to cope with the reality that was poverty at the time
- Being a young gilr during the early 1900s was tough
- Although life was brutal at times Francie found hope in the...
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TREE ON HER BLOCK
THEY ALL CALLED IT THE HEAVEN TREE
