How and why is the text you have selected still relevant to Americans today? What can we gain from
reading it that would help us better understand our nation and/or ourselves as Americans?
Please note that this question is asking about how a text can help us better understand ourselves as
Americans; it is NOT asking for a moral of the story or other shallow elementary school junk.
The book you will be writing about is “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Author By: Betty Smith”
