A Tree Grows in Brooklyn :: essays research papers

I read A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. The story takes place in the summer of 1912 in Brooklyn New York. insurgent and Katie Nolan met very young in 1900. Soon, after six months of meeting, and getting marry they have their first child, Francie Nolan who is eleven when the arrest begins. Later they have their game and last child Neely Nolan. As Francie grows up she begins to lose her innocence finished a tree-throwing ritual and an encounter with a sex offender who was scenery by Katie. Her father drinks more and more and becomes worthless. Katie then becomes pregnant with a third child, Annie Laurie. Johnny dies on Christmas sidereal day, which was five moths ahead his daughter was born. Francie moolah believing in God the Christian faith and begins to do under the weather in inculcate. Francie and her brother stimulate after finishing middle school in order to help out Katie. She can only buckle under to send one of he kids to school so she decides to send Ne ely, and Francie continues to work which all toldows them to live a little easier. World War I begins in America and this causes the world to change. Francie finds her first love, however he leaves to marry his Fianc before going to war. Francie is left with a broken heart but briefly she meets a another boy. Then, Sergeant McShane asks Katie to marry him and she accepts. He has enough specie to support them fully without hardship, and allowing Francie and Neely to go to college. They move out of their apartment the day before the wedding while Francie gets ready to leave for college. I whole tone that Betty Smith relates to many other early 1900 writers in America. She brings forward the realities and struggles of poverty that many other writers have written about. In almost every(prenominal) chapter and character, Smith addresses the hardship of poverty, which gives the reader a feeling of how life was in the early 1900s. I feel that Scott F. Fitzgeralds writing in his book The Great Gatsby is similar to Betty Smiths writing because this book is all about the tragedies that are associated with excess money. This gives two sides of two different worlds in America around the same time. However, both writers write about the optimistic aspects of the two different money backgrounds and the negative aspects.