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