Choose a passage from the novel a tree grows in brooklyn 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving.

Ambiguous: having two or more possible meanings. someone who is ambidextrous is able to use both hands well.