Make inferences and draw conclusions about the author’s purpose in the novel a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith. provide evidence from the text to support your analysis.

Smith wrote A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to inform others about what it was like growing up in a small neighborhood in Brooklyn in the early 1900s. In one chapter, she recalls “with a peculiar tenderness” how Brooklynites celebrated Thanksgiving (Smith 1). Smith’s use of cultural terminology, such as “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” helps the reader better understand the language used by children in the Williamsburg neighborhood at that point in history.

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