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