Brooklyn

=**__Brooklyn__**= == Brooklyn
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 * =**//Brooklyn//** by Colm Toibin= ||  ||   ||

__Setting__
Brooklyn is the most densely populated of New York City's five boroughs, with approximately 2.5 million residents, and the second largest borough in the Metropolitan area.

Irish immigrant populations can be found throughout Brooklyn, in low-to-moderate concentrations in the neighborhoods of Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, and Vinegar Hill.

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, and it was the first public co-ed liberal arts college in New York City. The college ranked in the top 10 nationally for the second consecutive year in Princeton Review's 2006 guidebook, America's Best Value Colleges. Many of its students are first and second generation immigrants.

Irish people The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded have legends of being descended from groups. The

Time When Eilis left Ireland, actually Irish economy was not good. So, lots of Irish people left their country and live America. She immigrated after World War Two in Brooklyn, New York.

Author He is also Irish, I think Eilis who made by author go to Brooklyn that author left his country and used to stay there. At last, Eilis is like author, just like him. He is an immigrant and felt something that related to education, job, love and family. The author Colm Toibin explains immigrant early 1950s.

=__**Plot**__=

__Part 1__ The min carter in this novel is Eilis, who is around 19 years old. She lives in a small town in Ireland with her mother and her older sister, Rose a spirited girl at the age of 28 years old. Eilis was studying bookkeeping and living a normal Irish life. Eilis thought that she was going to live all her life in that small town like her mother, and have friends and neighbors. She thought of finding a job in the town, and get marry with someone and have children. Then an unexpected thing happens. A priest comes to their house to visit from the US Father Flood. Father Flood offers Eilis to come to the United State in Brooklyn to have a better job and a better life in America. First Eilis didn't like it because she thought she was going to miss her bed, room, and the house but when Eilis look at her mother she look old and along. Rose was looking out for her mother with everything, when Eilis thought about it she didn't want to be like that she want it to be own place and have her own family. Rose was supporting her to go to America; she was giving Eilis more courage to go and start a new life in United States. __part 2 __ In the novel of Brooklyn the house run by a respectable Irish woman name Eilis. Eilis is very simple girl who take the control of the house and starts taking care of the family. When Eilis got in United States she start living in Brooklyn. When she notices that there is nobody to help her out she felt very lonely and sad. But Eilis didn't give up she start looking for job. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.

Father Flood started to organize dances to raise funds for charities. For the first time Eilis went to the dance with her friends McAdam and Sheila Hefferman.
==== One day after Eilis went at work she was called by the manager of the shop and Eilis got the news that they will welcome colored people to come into the shop for shopping, because since that time only the white people were welcomed to shop on Bartocci’s shop. ==== ==== After some weeks Eilis went again at dance. There, she meets a young guy. The guy introduces himself as Tony. At that night they danced together and after the dance Tony walked Eilis home. Tony liked Eilis a lot and Eilis liked him too. After a while they began to go out. Tony took Eilis at dance, at dinner, at movies, and to the beach. Eilis was very happy with Tony. ==== ==== She did well on her final exams on college and for that she was very happy too. One day when Eilis went at work she saw that Father Flood was waiting for her. She realized that something could be bad but she couldn’t think what it could be. Father Flood tells her the news, the bad news. He said to Eilis that Rose, Eilis’s sister is dead. Eilis was very upset and she couldn’t believe that her sister has gone forever. After that, she spoke to her mother on phone and her mother told her that Rose was sick for a while but Rose didn’t tell them because she didn’t want them to be worried. Tony stayed with Eilis for the most of the time and he wanted to do everything just to make Eilis a bit happy after she had bad times. On that night when Rose was buried Eilis had sex with Tony. ==== ==== After some time, she got a letter from her brother Jack, who wrote to her that their mother is having bad times after Rose’s death and she is sad, and she misses Eilis. Eilis decided to go back to her home country for a month but before the wanted to go, Tony proposed her marriage and Eilis and Tony got married. ====

**__ Part 4 __**
==== In part 4 Eilis went back to her home country. She went to visit her mother because now she was lonely after Rose died. Eilis was so happy that she went back to visit her mother. Eilis and her mother went to Rose's grave. Eilis was so sad and she said that she misses Rose too much. Eilis met all her firends.Her friend Nancy told Eilis that she is going to marry George and she wanted Eilis to stay for thier wedding. One day Eilis and her friend Nancy went to the beach with George and Jim. Jim told Eilis that he likes Eilis but she told him that she is married. When Eilis went home she told her mother that Jim likes her and her mother said good words for Jim's family. ==== ==== One day Eilis told her mother that she was married with Tony when she was in Brooklyn. Her mother asked Eilis lot of questions about Tony and Eilis's mother said that if she is married she has to go back to Brooklyn and be with Tony. After some days Eilis went back at Brooklyn. ====

__** Themes **__
__1.__ Homesickness A few days after, when she arrived at Brooklyn, Eilis got mails from her family, and it made her got homesickness. She was nobody in there. It was just not that she had no friends and family. She was ghost in her room, in the streets on the way to work, and on the shop floor. The book 'Brooklyn' depicts well homesickness.

2. Immigrants
====This book covers about immigrants. In the 50's, Irish people couldn't get a job in their miserable Irish economy, so many of Irish people had moved to other countries to get a jobb. In this book, we can find many Irish immigrants and also other immigrants groups. Through them, we can guess the immigrants life of that period. ==== __ ** Conflicts ** __

· After Eilis father dies Rose needs to take care of the entire family. It was really hard for Rose so she wanted Eilis to get a job.

· Eilis gets a job at a shop own by Ms. Kelly. Her family didn’t like the idea of her working there because Kelly takes advantage of her employees and customers.

· One of Eilis friend Nancy invited her to a dance because she didn’t want to face George Sheridan alone. Nancy was scared that he would ignore her and not ask her to dance. In the dance Eilis meet Jim Farrel which she thought was a jerk. She notice him studying Nancy coldly like if she wasn’t good enough for George his best friend.

· While Eilis was in her way to New York She got sea Sick in the boat. She didn’t know it was going to be so bad so she ate the first night. The first night she started vomiting all over the place and the other people didn’t let her go in the bathroom. They knew that it was going to be bad so they locked it so they could only use it.

· While she was at Brooklyn she got home sick and was really depress. That almost made her loss her job.

· One day while Eilis was working Father Flood Came to give her a bad news. He told her that her sister Rose had passed away. She couldn’t believe it at first; she was shock of the idea of thinking that she would never s ee her sister again.

· When Eilis received her brother’s letter she couldn’t think right. He basically was telling her that she needed to go back to Ireland to be with her mom. That same night she decided to go see Tony so he can help her. He walked her home and she invited him to her room he was so red from crying so she pulled him closer and they had sex. After that day she was embarrassed and was scared of the possibility of her being pregnant.

· When Eilis went back to Ireland she started going out Jim Farrel. He told her that he really liked her and that the day of the dance he wanted to ask her to dance but he was scared. After that she realized that she was married with Tony and needed to go back to Brooklyn. She told her mom about everything and her mom told her that she needed to be with her husband. This book identify with immigramts. Is hard to leave your country and adapt to customother country. When Elis came fron Ireland she get home sick. The prist help to register in the Brooklyn College. She likes Brooklyn more than Manhattan.  **__ AUTHOR __** Colm Toibin author of //Brooklyn// was born in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College in Barcelona from 1975 to 1978. For his success, he received an honorary from the University of Ulster and from University College Dublin. Toibin was asked to serve on the Arts Council in Ireland. Based on his success as a writer, he was selected to be a visiting writer at both Stanford University and the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Both two books // The South // and // Homage to Barcelona // were published in 1990 in Barcelona as his experience in there. Then he worked as an editor in some places but he decided to travel. When he left from 1985, he travelled in Africa and South America. He did continue to do some other jobs like journalist and travel writer. He wrote // Brooklyn which was winner of the Costa Novel of the Year in 2009. He also won some other kind of prizes. As a result, I think his splendid life and different experiences of the job were one of the reasons that made him became successful. //