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Analysis Of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Setting Paragraph In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith forms a small Brooklyn setting where poverty, the election, and religion strongly affect the protagonist Francie Nolan. Poverty plays a huge part in not only Francie’s life, but many other. When Francie is in school, her main purpose is to learn, but being poor does not benefit her at school. Poor students such as Francie were mistreated; they sat in the back of class and the teacher never helped them. Teachers grade things on their thoughts too, and schools are cramped; 3,000 children in a 1,000 capacity school. Francie and her family were so low on money many times, “Half of any money they got from anywhere went into the tin-can bank,” (Smith 8-9). Because
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