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Perseverance In A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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The Power of Perseverance Throughout life, one must learn that in order to overcome challenges, they must keep sight of their goals and persevere in order to reach them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith tells the story of a young girl named Francie growing up in an impoverished Brooklyn community in the early 1900s. Since a young age, Francie fantasizes about the other worlds s out there, it is through the observation of others and the books that she reads that she realizes that she must get out of her town in order to be happy. Many times throughout the book, it feels as though all odds are against her, like when she must drop out of high school to support her family. Despite having to endure many hardships, Francie picks herself back …show more content…

Smith makes it clear that Sissy is a natural born nurturer who has a passion for looking after others, this is clear through her taking care of Johnny when he suffers from withdrawal, looking after Francie and Neeley, and being her elderly mother’s caretaker. Because of Sissy’s strong love for taking care of others, all she wants is to have a child of her own to take care of. This has not always been easy for Sissy, “Sissy at twenty four had borne eight children, none of whom live.” One might think that these failures would send Sissy into defeat but rather made her “love of children grow stronger()”. Even after multiple failures, she doesn’t give up on her ambition and is even willing to sacrifice partners in order to reach it. Sissy’s strong efforts not only reveal her strong passion of being a nurturing mother, but it also reveals how she commits to goals and perseveres in order achieve them. In addition to sacrificing partners and her multiple attempts Sissy also perseveres against her situation by adopting a child behind her husband’s back. When her husband first mentions a women being trapped in a basement by her father and starved for getting pregnant, Sissy’s inner nurturer comes out and she immediately wants to help, her idea of helping is to agree to adopt the child, to not only help the family but the baby as well. When her husband, Steve demands that they do not adopt the child, Sissy conjures up a plan in which she fakes her pregnancy and takes care of the family suffering from abuse behind Steve’s back. Sissy’s actions clearly are out of good intentions but poor judgment, but regardless embody a refusal to except not having a child, and perseverance against obstacles of unfortunate

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