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  1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn begins on a Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1912 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where a tree called the Tree of Heaven grows amidst the tenement houses. Francie Nolan is eleven years old, and she and her brother are collecting junk to exchange for pennies.

    • Betty Smith
    • 1943
  2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 American drama film that marked the debut of Elia Kazan as a dramatic film director. Adapted by Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis from the 1943 novel by Betty Smith , the film focuses on an impoverished but aspirational, second-generation Irish-American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn ...

  3. At a crowded dance in early-20th-century Brooklyn, beautiful Katie Rommely dances with her best friend’s boyfriend, Johnny Nolan. Immediately enamored by his curly golden locks and charm, Katie sets out to steal Johnny from her best friend.

  4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn study guide contains a biography of Betty Smith, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis of selected short stories. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn essays are academic essays for citation.

  5. In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Visual theme-tracking, too.

  6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, published in 1943, is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Betty Smith. It follows the life of Francie Nolan, a young girl growing up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in the early 20th century.

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  8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, James Dunn. Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

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