It has been chopped down and the stump set on fire, but Francie notices that the tree is not dead. It has sent out a new branch and is surviving, just as the Nolan family has survived poverty and death and is now being given a new chance at a better life. When Francie is born in Chapter 9, Mary Rommely tells her daughter Katie to make a bank from a tin can. She is told to nail the bank to the floor of the closet and to put five cents in the bank every day.
No matter how difficult it is to save money, Mary says it is important that money be put in the can each day. The money is to be saved until there is enough to buy land, so that the family can escape from the poverty of living in the tenements. In Chapter 1, when Francie and Neeley collect scrap metal to sell to the junk dealer, they put half the money they earn in the tin can bank.
It is not enough money to pay for a cemetery plot in which to bury Johnny. After it has been emptied once again, Katie throws away the bank. For fourteen years, the family has used the bank to save money to buy land. Since the family now "owns land" — that is, the plot in which Johnny is to be buried — the bank has fulfilled its purpose.
Francie and Neeley create another tin can bank in Chapter 43, in which they will save money to buy Christmas presents, which allows the family to have a better Christmas. For most of the book, the tin can bank represents the hope that the family can somehow escape their terrible poverty and start a new life in a home they will own. When Francie and Neeley create their own tin can bank, they are saving for a more immediate need, but the bank still represents their hope for a better future.
She thinks the library is a beautiful place, although it is small and dingy. The narrator tells readers that Francie reads a book every day. Jessie Arnold Nurse as Nurse uncredited. John Berkes Mr. Creckenbox as Mr. Creckenbox uncredited. Linda Bieber Girl as Girl uncredited. Wyrley Birch Old man on second floor landing as Old man on second floor landing uncredited. Elia Kazan. More like this.
Watch options. Storyline Edit. In Brooklyn circa , the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school Rated PG for mild depiction of mature plot material. Did you know Edit. Trivia After being so impressed by the dailies of the film, executives at "Fox" wanted to re-shoot the entire movie in Technicolor, but Elia Kazan refused.
Goofs When the girl is ironing, she never gets a hot iron off the stove; back then, said irons had to be heated from some heat source, usually the stove top.
One was used while another was being heated, and then the person would switch when the one ironing got too cool to press the wrinkles out. Quotes Francie Nolan : Out the window, our tree they killed it! User reviews 95 Review. Top review. Brooklyn -- the way it was. What a magnificent motion picture! Betty Smith's book is a classic, and this film somehow manages to do it perfect justice in the first movie ever directed by Elia Kazan.
In many ways I feel privileged to be able to comment here because I may be the only "reviewer" in these pages to have been in Brooklyn very close to the time of this film I was born in The film recaptures the feel, the mores, the neighborhood so magnificently, it is incredible. Every time I watch this movie, I feel as if I am revisiting my youth, albeit an idealized version.
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