HAS anyone read a TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN?
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Try searching sparknotes.com, they have actual text and summary
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All I really know about the guy is that he is (or was about 2 years ago) my cousin's tennis partner in Brookline, MA. Evidently a reasonably normal guy. I never met him. But the point of the book is not to be read from a contemporary perspective. I am not talking about cultural relativism, but I am saying that you have to read the book contextually.
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No I haven't. Sorry. Is it a good book?
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There are many thousands of Jehovah's Witness individuals and families who live in Brooklyn and the rest of New York City; it is unlikely that all of them will soon "pull out" their families and their households.\n\nFor decades, Jehovah's Witnesses printed their literature, bound their books, packed their literature shipments, and loaded their trucks from their printery and warehouse complexes in Brooklyn, New York, USA. As recently as a few years ago, there were eleven different presses running there, and little room for expansion in that expensive metropolitan area.\n\nAs alternatives to expansion in Brooklyn were researched, it became clear that Jehovah's Witnesses could more economically expand their operations outside New York City. Land was less expensive, municipalities were more cooperative, utilities were less expensive, and there was little-to-no neighborhood objection to increased factory noise and truck traffic. At the same time, it was becoming clear that newer printing presses capable of fulfilling the increasing demand for Jehovah's Witness literature would require significantly higher ceiling heights than was available in any of the existing Brooklyn factory buildings.\n\nSince the 1970's, Jehovah's Witnesses had been printing their well-known magazines The Watchtower and Awake! at their printery in Wallkill, New York, about a ninety-minute drive from New York City. The decision was made to double the size of the existing Wallkill printery and move printery operations there from Brooklyn. The Wallkill complex covers more than 11 acres of floor space.\n\nIn conjunction with the new printery building, the acquisition of larger presses, and the geographic move to Wallkill, Jehovah's Witnesses designed and implemented one of the most sophisticated in-plant printing, binding, inventorying, packing, and shipping operations in the world at speeds and efficiencies impossible just a few years ago. The Wallkill facility offers free tours to the public from Monday through Friday.\n\nhttp://jw-media.org/region/americas/usa/english/releases/growth/usa_e030901.htm\nhttp://www.mullermartini.com/Desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-274/28_read-1914/\nhttp://www.jw-media.org/region/americas/usa/english/releases/events/usa_e030610.htm\nhttp://www.jw-media.org/region/americas/usa/english/releases/events/usa_e030529.htm\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/who.htm\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/e/jt/article_02.htm
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Muze Annotations\nThe beloved author of such classic children's books as "Henry Huggins" and "Dear Mr. Henshaw" tells of her early life in Oregon, first on the family farm in Yamhill, and later in Portland during the Depression. Readers will learn about the childhood of the creator of Ramona, and find parts of her life that made their way into her books.\n\n\nPublisher's Notes\nGenerations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends, families, and assorted pets. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood brought to life in Beverly Cleary books, here is the fascinating true story of the remarkable woman who created them.\n\n\nSynopses\nFollows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.
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There is an obvious vilian in the story\nthere is horror especially  at the end of the book\nThe book has some dark moments a white women fasely accusing a black man of rape when actually it was her father\nI can't remember her name the lady who Scout read to it reminded me of Miss Havisham  in Great Expectations -Gothic novel\nto kill a mocking bird- Edgar Allen Poe the "Raven" another Gothic story there are some cahracteristics in both\nI think there are some supernatural events in the book particularly around  “Boo” Radley
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summary from authors web page\n\nOlive Barstow was in Martha Boyle's class until she was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding her bicycle. Martha didn't know Olive-not really. But after Olive's mother gives her a section from Olive's journal, Martha knows they could have been, would have been friends. \n\nAnd now Martha and her family are going to visit Godbee, Martha's grandmother, on Cape Cod for the rest of the summer-as they do every year. The Boyles descend on Godbee's small house in a flurry of exuberance, mini-crises, diapers, and humor all mixed together. The ocean is still there. And the five Manning boys still live next door. There is Jimmy Manning with his ever-present video camera. Jimmy Manning, who gives Martha her first kiss. And Tate, who seems to follow Martha with his eyes. And then there is Olive, who had always wanted to see the ocean, and who now haunts Martha's thoughts and dreams.
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The story opens with a description of North Richmond Street, a"blind," "cold ... .. silent" street where the houses "gazed at one an-other with brown imperturbable faces." It is a street of fixed, decaying conformity and false piety. The boy's house contains the samesense of a dead present and a lost past. The former tenant, a priest,died in the back room of the house, and his legacy-several old yel-lowed books, which the boy enjoys leafing through because they areold, and a bicycle pump rusting in the back yard-become symbolsof the intellectual and religious vitality of the past. The boy, in themidst of such decay and spiritual paralysis, experiences the confusedidealism and dreams of first love and his awakening becomes incom-patible with and in ironic contrast to the staid world about him.\n\nEvery morning before school the boy lies on the floor in thefront parlor peeking out through a crack in the blind of the door,watching and waiting for the girl next door to emerge from her houseand walk to school. He is shy and still boyish. He follows her, walkssilently past, not daring to speak, overcome with a confused sense ofsensual desire and religious adoration. In his mind she is both a saintto be worshipped and a woman to be desired. His eyes are "often fullof tears," and one evening he goes to the back room where the priesthad died. Clasping the palms of his hands together, he murmurs, "0love! 0 love!" in a prayer not to God, but to the concept of love andperhaps even to the girl, his love. Walking with his aunt to shop onSaturday evenings he imagines that the girl's image accompanies him,and that he protects her in "places the most hostile to romance." Inthe mixed symbolism of the Christian and the Romantic or Orientalmyths Joyce reveals the epiphany in the story: "These noises con-verged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore mychalice safely through a throng of foes." He is unable to talk to thegirl. Drifting away from his schoolmates' boyish games, the boy hasfantasies in his isolation, in the ecstasy and pain of first love.\n\nFinally the girl speaks to the boy. She asks him if he is going toAraby. He replies that if he does he will bring her a gift, and fromthat moment, his thoughts upon the mixed imagery of the saintly lightupon her hair and the potential sensuality of "the white border of apetticoat," the boy cannot sleep or study. The word Araby "cast anEastern enchantment" over him, and then on the night he is to go tothe bazaar his uncle neglects to return home. Neither the aunt noruncle understands the boy's need and anguish, and thus his isolationis deepened. We begin to see that the story is not so much a story oflove as it is a rendition of the world in which the boy lives.\n\nThe second part of the story depicts the boy's inevitable disap-pointment and realization. In such an atmosphere of "blindness"-the aunt and uncle unaware of the boy's anguish, the girl not con-scious of the boy's love, and the boy himself blind to the true natureof his love-the words "hostile to romance" take on ironic overtones.These overtones deepen when the boy arrives too late at the bazaar.It is closing and the hall is "in darkness." He recognizes "a silencelike that which prevades a church after a service" but the bazaar isdirty and disappointing. Two men are "counting money on a salver"and he listens "to the fall of the coins." A young lady, bored withhim and interested in two men who are flirting with her, cheapensand destroys the boy's sense of an "Eastern enchantment." His love,like his quest for a gift to draw the girl to him in an unfriendly world,ends with his realizing that his love existed only in his mind. Thus\n\nthe theme of the story-the discrepancy between the real and theideal-is made final in the bazaar, a
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I've got the book, and haven't got round to reading it yet. I know what its about roughly though, didn't know pedophilia was a large plot point, but i knew sex was there a lot.\n\nSame can be said for the Anne Rice (Anne Roquelare) books, some call them smut, some call them art.\n\nGonna go read it now :)
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i havent read it, but ive heard that it is really good. im going to either check it out from the library or buy it soon, and read it.
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The Hartford Couurant, a newspaper in Conn. wrote a story about Rory Emerald finding Yoko Ono's bonsai tree. Of course it turned out to be a hoax, a friendly hoax. The Post & other tattler tabloids had a lot of fun with the ruse. (great & thought provoking question)
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Oh was that a book name???????? Never heard b4 :)\n  Nops!
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The Beach, it was made into a movie several years ago with Leonardo Dicaprio, but the book is so much better.  I wish I could remember the author for you.  \n\nAlso, I recommend The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime; A Seperate Peace; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Catch-22.  \n\nThese are some of my personal favorites, I hope you like them too!
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Oh my god, that was my favorite book in fifth grade! Yeah, I did draw a map of the island. Make sure you include the rope-guides that Phillip used, as well as the birds' nests.\nI love that book. I'll read it over the weekend, I think.
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I read it a long time back. I'll tell you what I remember. \nLike all Arthur Hailey books it was very well researched. It was almost difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. The details of the operations of a hotel that has been shown is wonderful.\nThe novel definitely revolves around the hotel industry but is much more than that.\nIt has many different threads that emanate from the hotel, and it covers several other aspects of human life. \nFor example, the childish character of Marsha Preyscott, which makes her “very sincerely” narrate the story of the happy married life of her governess to Peter McDermott to pursue him to believe that her decision to marry him is all right. This was when her governess was not married at all. And this was not a mental delusion or anything, it was plain simple lie she had told him to be able to pursue him to marry her!!\nThen there was the issue of black-white discrimination which was handled when the author brought up the issue that came up in a Dentists’ convention when the hotel persisted \nAnd why, not surprisingly, he was right. The convention did not pull out certainly, even if details varied a bit!!\nThe hotel is having monetary problems. The rich poor discrimination is also brought up by the author. But, he has his protagonist act out in the correct way. This act of kindness by the hotel's assistant manager finds a new buyer for the hotel. The story ends with the change of hotel ownership changes. The competence of the assistant manager is recognized and he becomes the EVP, essentially responsible for running the operation. In the very beginning he takes the stand that the hotel should be desegregated. This was bold, but he gets on with it and gets it accepted too. Later there is a conversation with a black character of the novel, who has always been skeptical of manager’s intentions when he advocated desegregation…\nAll in all it was a great read.\nI am sorry I am unable to give more details.
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Sure I have read it! It is one of my favorite books!
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I'm reading the book now.  It is about a supposed secret society that protected the secret that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalen and had a son.  The artist da vVnci was supposed to have been a member of that secret society, and hid clues about it in his paintings.\n\nRemember, it is a work of fiction.  Not a bad read, and makes you think, but still fiction.