Read the excerpt below from a tree grows in brooklyn and answer the question that follows. most children brought up in brooklyn before the first world war remember day there with a peculiar tenderness. it was the day children went around “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask.
based on this excerpt, what is the author’s purpose in writing?
a. to inform
b. to persuade
c. to publish
d. to analyze