A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Essay

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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

This book is about a poor girl in Brooklyn, New York growing up to a full grown adult by encountering a lot of difficulties. First, her parents were second generation Americans and they were living under a poverty line. Because of this, she had to work before entering elementary school. Moreover, as her family was originated from Eastern Europe, she faced a fierce discrimination when she entered elementary school at the age of seven. What does the worst, her beloved father die when she was about to enter a grammar school.
However, she was intelligent and active and had perseverance. She managed to get terrific grades in her school years. Also, she managed to work as a top editor when she had to quit her grammar school because of her father’s death. While she was working, she found a summer school where she was able to earn college credit. At the end of the story, her mother married a wealthy man who was dealing with estates. As her family got rich, she was able to go to a prestigious university in Michigan.
I liked this story because it is an excellent resource of how the people in Brooklyn lived in the 1910s to 1930s. I had no idea about the life in the United States before the 1980s when my mother went there to attend college. Also, as I lived in a district when few poor people lived, I did not know their struggles and discriminations. Nevertheless, this novel expanded my horizon. In 500 pages, it depicted emerging New York in details. I think this novel is a national treasure for the U.S.A. Inside Out Inside Out, or インサイドヘッド in Japanese, is a Disney movie made in 2015. This movie is about a girl, Rally, facing a plight and losing emotions. She was born in Minnesota, a countryside in the U.S. and as her father wanted to start a business, her family moved to California. Nevertheless, she misses her friends and a lot of things in Minnesota. Gradually, her emotions start to become unstable and finally stops. Inside her head, five emotion fairies was working; Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. When she was at Minnesota, they were working just fine, and when they find a cherishable memory, they kept in a glass ball and stored somewhere in the brain. However, when Rally arrived at California, most of those memories got destroyed, and Joy and Sadness travel all around the brain. Facing a lot of hardships, they at last finds that Sadness has the power to heal people’s heart by making compassion. When Joy and her friends had finally realized this, they were able to bring Rally back to home. I liked this movie because I was undergoing the same kind of depression as Rally was.
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However, the inventor died before finishing him up, and Edward’s hand remained to be made out of scissors. One day, a local saleswoman called Peg visited his castle and invited him to her home. Peg’s family welcomed Edward and became good friends of him. Peg’s neighbors got impressed on Edward’s skill to trim a yard and do hair make-ups, and Edward started a business. His repetition increased in the U.S. and he started to appear on TVs. While gaining fame as a new creature, he falls in love with Peg’s beautiful daughter, Kim. Nevertheless, Kim has a bad behaving boyfriend, Jim and he started to bully

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