Timeless Themes in Literature: A Northern Light & A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The value of literature is immense. ... A Northern Light and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn share the same theme: education is important. ... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is about a young girl named Francie who lives in Brooklyn, New York. ... Both of these novels, A Northern Light and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, had timeless themes. ...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A comparison made between Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge effectively demonstrates the validity of this assertion. ... They often ridiculed mankind for its growing obsession with material gain and technological conquest. ... The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge exemplifies Romanticism in the way that the whole of the poem involves an idealization of nature. ... Crossing Brooklyn Ferry In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Whitman communicates observations made by him while traveling on the Broo...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He soon became editor for a number of Brooklyn and New York papers. ... On his return to Brooklyn in the fall of 1848, he founded a "free soil" newspaper, the "Brooklyn Freeman". ... He begins to compare his life and friendship with this live-oak tree growing as a symbol of this. ... The poet saw the oak tree growing. ... He again states that the tree maintains it willingness to grow among no others and continue to grow beautifully and halcyon. ...

• Word Count: 1529
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• Grade Level: High School

In the book, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Francie acquires many traits from her mother, father, and some all her own. Like Francie, I also have acquired some traits from my mother, some from my father, and some traits are ones that I have developed all on my own. Over the years I have acquired many a...

• Word Count: 537
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• Grade Level: High School

Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus in Brooklyn on 1871. ... He became one of the most famous little person performers in history as he stopped growing at approximately two feet tall. ... Over the course of its 23-year existence, Barnum filled the American Museum with lots of strange and rare things like dioramas, scientific instruments, a flea circus, a loom run by a dog, the trunk of a tree under which Jesus' disciples sat, an oyster bar, a rifle range, waxworks, taxidermists, phrenologists, pretty-baby contests, a variety of freaks like the Siamese tw...

• Word Count: 2080
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography