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Chapter 4 about the city

tree in brooklyn 贝蒂·史密斯 576Words 2018-03-21
Betty Smith (1896-1972) was born in Brooklyn, a descendant of German immigrants, and her childhood was poor.She didn't finish high school, but later, like the protagonist of the novel, Francis Nolan, she took courses in college and devoted her life to writing.Although she has written other works, and other works have been adapted into movies, her name has always been associated with China. The Brooklyn of the novel is located in New York, which is inhabited by immigrants from all over the world: Jews and Irish, Germans and Italians.Life in this community is colorful: Jewish old men sell old pickles on the street; Germans and Irish compete in antiphonal songs on Christmas Eve; Italian musicians and singers sing on the streets... The work gives an encyclopedia of American life in the early 20th century. Similar introduction.Some introductions, we seem to still smile knowingly today.

The novel writes Brooklyn at the beginning of the 20th century into a long volume of customs and customs, recreating an ordinary area into a cultural landscape.Betty Smith's Brooklyn is like Pamuk's Istanbul, Joyce's Dublin, Baudelaire's Paris.As a result, literary critic Alfred Kazen wrote: "In a sense, Brooklyn is a perfect portrayal. In the minds of countless people, the word 'Brooklyn' itself, and the memorable early family The experience is linked together and gradually becomes an avatar, a symbol of the poverty of early life, of life in the neighborhood, of youth itself. Likewise, it is a symbol of longing, of pursuit, of dreams of the wonderful world outside." After reading this Books, it's hard for me to imagine walking through Brooklyn, or any other city we live in, without noticing what's around me.Indeed, a good book can touch a person's soul and profoundly change the way we see the world around us.

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