![]() The money is put into a tin can that the family uses as a bank. The children are allowed to keep half of their meager earnings but the other half must go to the family. Francie and her younger brother, Neeley must spend the day scouring for metal scraps to sell to the junk man, a man named Carney. Next, we are introduced to eleven-year-old Francie Nolan. The locals have dubbed the tree 'The Tree of Heaven'. In the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn in the year 1912, a tree lives and continues to grow no matter how little the impoverished residents of the area are able to care for it. The first character introduced in the story is a tree. At the end of the book, Francie is a college freshman who is leaving New York to study writing at the University of Michigan. The family undergoes many hardships throughout the coming-of-age novel. ![]() The novel revolves around an eleven-year-old girl named Francie Nolan who lives in poverty with her quietly ambitious mother and alcoholic father in 1912 Brooklyn, New York. The book was also adapted into a Broadway Musical in 1951 which ran for 267 performances and a 1974 television movie adaptation. A film adaptation was made only two years later in 1945 and went on to win two Academy Awards. ![]() The book was a huge hit and became an immediate success. ![]()
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