Final "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Essay

Here I am, sitting in my favorite brown chair, reading a book, where some parts are not as enhancing as others -- but this part, right here, has the makings to be a great novel.  I am most excited about finally reaching the next part, but my mom calls me in for supper, and I morosely put the book down on the table besides the extraordinary chair, solemnly waiting to pick it up again.  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith has many reasons why you should treasure your life.  Francie's life was pretty fallacious, but in the end, everything started to climb back up the mountain to achievement when she changed from a child to a cultivated woman.

The theme in this book is very relevant -- innocence to experience in a young girl's life.  This girl, Francie, grows up in one of New York's obscene towns, Brooklyn.  Yet somehow she finds it exceedingly mystifying.  She overcomes many obstacles in her life, and once at one of her hardest struggles says, "Well, I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life -- and nothing else but."  I agree.  Life is a pain, but if you have family and friends to help you through it, there will be no problems as bad as if you had to solve them alone.  All Francie really is is a tree planted in the wrong spot.

Betty Smith wrote this novel in a peculiar way.  She had a comprehensible vision of how a adolescent girl in a social class like Francie's would live.  Included in her novel were an abounding number of lessons that could teach the reader about life; children or even elders.  For example, in about the middle of the book, Francie's father dies from drinking too much, not just that, but also from drinking too much too often and pneumonia.  A father dying could happen to any child, in fact it happens to every person sooner or later.  There are many different reasons why a person could be heartbroken -- Lee left her to go to France, and a couple days later, a sad Francie received a letter from his mother saying that he was pretending the whole time, and Francie had practically promised her life away to him!  Even though that is notably appalling on Francie's part, it could portray to anyone.

Anybody reading this book could get some good citations out of it.  I think the point of reading it was the author wanted us to see what kind of life goes on in Brooklyn at the time period that she was living in there to give people reading it in the future a short glimpse of what it was like.  How the Nolan family talked, acted, and how people living in the streets acted and how their use of language was, all pieces to this puzzle of Brooklyn, New York.  Another point I noticed that there was to this book was that life doesn't always go as you expected it to be.  Johnny lost his job, which he completely didn't think was going to happen, and went back to Union Headquarters to see if he could find a new one, but the people working there told him never to come back because he was a drunk and a useless worker.  Some people in this world are not the most commendable, but you just have to keep driving no matter which way the road goes -- left or right.

This novel has contradistinct reasons why you should be careful of what you do, and always go one step up at a time; don't skip any because you might miss out on something meaningful.  All Francie did was hit a couple bumps in the road.  Never did she doubt herself though, she kept traveling and eventually everything turned out smooth once again.