A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Analysis

It is presently common, to label women as inherently malicious and slanderous individuals. We see these stereotypes present, in today’s society. For instance, when two women get in an argument, others around them, tend to yell ‘cat fight’, declaring that because they are women, they presume them as ‘catty’. This scenario, can also be used as a parallel, that depicts what society does to women. Society sets women in opposition to each other, by elevating a male’s status, and forcing women to seek approval from men. In the book, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the main character Francie observes, a situation where, a woman is verbally and eventually physically assaulted, by other women, because she is not married (or really, she doesn’t care nor needs the

I believe there is racism in the book If You Come Softly. What is racism? Well racism is judging or being unequal to a person because of their race. Racism plays a big role in the book because people were rude to Miah and looking at Miah and Ellie weird because Miah was black and Ellie is white. Miah and Ellie were walking in the park 2 old ladies were staring at them and one of them asked Ellie

In the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, it discusses the city of Savannah, Georgia and the people that live there during the nineties. The author encounters several different kinds of people and events throughout the city Savannah that he was not really expecting. Savannah has several underlying issues even though people act as if things are fine. After further analysis, the main issue is even though things in Savannah may appear to be diverse; there is still harsh discrimination against African Americans and homosexuals.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is split between two sections, the past and the present. The past depicts the epic love story of Katie and Johnny, an unlikely pair who fall in love instantaneously, and even though they are poverty-stricken, their love transcends all. The present depicts the lives of their children, and shows how they overcome their poverty and still live a happy, fun life filled with memories to be treasured

In the south, African Americans could not go to the same school as the white children. That made them mad because they were made equal. In the the book, The Watsons go to Birmingham, their cousins marched to have rights and to show that there should be no segregation between African Americans and whites. In the book ,The Watsons go to Birmingham it says “ White children often attended large, well equipped , modern schools while African American students went to one-room schoolhouses without enough books or teachers.”(207 -208) They treated them unfair because the African Americans got the hand me downs of the white kids.This is an example for how segregation fits in the book and when it really happened.

Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

Betty Smith 's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn presents the problems of a child growing up, the coming of age when one meets challenges and overcomes obstacles. The protagonist, Francie Nolan, undergoes a self-discovery as she strives to mature living in the Brooklyn slum despite its poverty and privation. Thus, Smith 's thematic treatment of the struggle of maturity has become for the reader an exploration of loneliness, family relationships, the loss of innocence, and death and disease.

It depicts that if a group of boys were removed from a civilised area, they would eventually resort to a state of savagery and an incompetent assault to the way that they deal with things. In my opinion the book in some way, is racist, but mostly is not. The definition of racism is as follows;

The racist attitudes of the time are personified by the subordinate characters in the book.

Uncle Willie was another character who had to deal with racism regularly considering he was a black man. He was a handicapped older man who worked in a store and due to an injury when he was very young was crippled. At one point when the Klu Klux Klan was supposed to come into town uncle Willie was up all night wining as if they were going to lynch him however they never came. If they did, however he surely would have been hung, but none the less it was a very long stressful night for him. Even white children would be very disrespectful to Uncle Willie and Marguerite’s

The reconstruction of the South began after the Civil War was over. It was a time when many new amendments were passed to further the progress of black people. But segregation was the end result. This shows how in Arkansas, where the book is set, racism is prevalent and it is a deciding factor in many people’s opinions, and even in Mattie’s as well. When Mattie and Yarnell are making their way down to her father they, or rather Yarnell, experience a moment of racism while on the train and a slur is yelled at Yarnell. Also he is given a command, and he is expected to follow it, which he does. This a lingering attitude left over from the Civil War, and it shows how white people still don’t see black people as equal and they expect them

This makes many people today very uncomfortable. Today we are aware that racism and segregation is not acceptable. Reading about it in class with students of several races makes the pain of the experiences in the book real

Many parts in the novel speak about Sunday bjects such as pregnancies, delivery services and also mentions infant’s health and appearance and stillbirths that are accurate for life in the early 1900’s. Overall, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith portrays a correct degree of realism in the categories of delivery services, infant and fetal mortality, as well as pregnancies.

were still segregated. The characters do not get along with the majority of the white population,

    First I will cover the idea of racism by giving you three examples of it shown in the book. My first example is with a character named Crooks, Crooks is a old black man with  a bad back. Crooks is isolated in the book because the boss separates him and the other workers by giving Crooks his own room in the lean-to, while the other white workers get