Choose a passage from the novel a tree grows in Brooklyn and examine how the language in the passage evokes a sense of time and

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Choose a passage from the novel a tree grows in Brooklyn and examine how the language in the passage evokes a sense of time and

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kolezko [41] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-21T16:32:41+03:00

"Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the day children went around “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask." This evokes a sense of time and place because of the diction it uses. It tells us that it was before WW1 on Thanksgiving.