Chapter Summary Of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' starts out depicting the scene out of Francie's eyes looking at a tree growing outside her window. It becomes apparent to readers the family Francie belongs to a poverty-stricken. In the early chapters we find out Francie loves the library, reading, and learning to her it's like a “get away.” We also retain the knowledge that Francie's grandmother, Mary, never learned how to read or write “... but she had in her memory over a thousand stories and legends.” Mary sends her children to public school and tells their teacher her girls are not to learn a lick of German to protect them from their father, Thomas, who also does not speak, read, or write in English. Mary Rommely and Thomas Rommely's kids left school in the sixth grade to start working. “... her children had to leave school after the sixth grade and go out working.” In the early 1900's it was very common for children to go to school and “drop-out” when their guardians felt they were ready to work in the factories because they needed the money. Between 1900 and 1910 they had one percent …show more content…
I was enrolled in preschool on time and education has always been the first priority in my family, so my mother and father have tried to put my siblings and I in the best schools as possible. Like Francie my mother used to read to me and when I learned to read on my own we would read together until we fell asleep. Unlike back in the days not many children drop out of school because it is hard to get any job in this economy without a high school degree let alone a college degree. In 2015 18 percent of youth in high-school also were employed. Traditional high school students may find a part time job as well as schooling is difficult to balance and often finding a job with no experience is difficult. Between 1993 and 2015 high-schoolers that are employed has declined