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Society and Class
Being poor is the ever-present backdrop for the characters in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Francie’s neighborhood school is overcrowded, and the teachers don’t even think the poor deserve an education. They live in buildings that are barely up to health codes, and the children get little parental supervision because the adults have to work so much to make ends meet. They are undernourished and constantly hungry, but the author doesn’t seem to think these are insurmountable hurdles. They are real and difficult problems, but the Nolans are able make it out of their poverty.
In A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, once someone is out of poverty, they usually lose all compassion for the poor.
If everyone had the same amount of education, there would be no poor people.
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