Choose a passage from the novel a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith and examine how the language in the passage evokes a sense of time and place.

"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." this evokes a sense of time and place because of the diction it uses. it tells us that it was before ww1 on .