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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Learning Tree Information
219 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Learning Tree is a 1969 film which tells the story of a young African American growing up in a rural setting in the early part of the 20th century, when racial discrimination was a social norm, legally sanctioned in parts of the United... 
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 The Boston Globe Planting a Learning Tree
12/20/1993: 1,660 words, approx. 6 pages SPRINGFIELD -- It was 1952. Seven-year-old Arthur Serota was temporarily attending an all-white elementary school in Miami while his mother was seeking a divorce from his father, who was living back home in Brooklyn. One fine morning, Mrs. Lewis, Serota's teacher, was explaining why... summary from source:
Dayton Daily News Appraisal To Benefit Learning Tree Farm
02/21/2004: 308 words, approx. 1 pages Find out value of antiques, help kids, too DAYTON - Bring your antiques and collectibles to Learning Tree Farm's fourth annual antiques appraisal today to learn what area experts say the items might be worth. The fund-raiser modeled on PBS' Antiques Roadshow...
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by James Monaco
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[Gordon Parks, Sr.] made a short, Flavio, about a boy in a Brazilian favela, in 1965. It was well received, but it took him more than three years to put together his first feature, The Learning Tree…. Finally Hollywood was ready for its first prominent Black director. The Learning Tree (1968) based on Parks's own memoirs, is a visually stunning evocation of his childhood in Kansas in the twenties. Because the setting is Midwestern, the story is also rather novel, successfully avoiding the clic... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Joseph Morgenstern
701 words, approx. 2 pages
The pleasures of "The Learning Tree," an awkward but greatly affecting movie, are all bound up with nostalgia for a vanished land in which barefooted farm boys could do cartwheels through unbounded fields of yellow flowers, in which a preacher could implore the Lord to "deliver our young from cigarettes, from dancing, from drinking, from flapper skirts," in which an amorous young man could give his girl a bottle of violet water and a card, especially made up to go with it, that s... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Susan Rice
233 words, approx. 1 pages
Gordon Parks is a still photographer. He directed The Learning Tree, his first motion picture. It is still born. Dare I say primitive? Gordon Parks is black. If he wasn't nobody would pay much attention to his picture. But he is, and everybody is giving the film much more attention and praise than it deserves…. I am also sorry that the first massive, lavish, technicolor, mass distributed film by a black man should be so reassuring … like Green Pastures. Parks' remembrance of his ...
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 88%Marcus Savage Character Study
983 words, approx. 3 pages
Provides a character sketch of Marcus Savage from the book The Learning Tree. Discusses how it is quite possible for someone to do something outrageous, without revealing his or her reasons for doing so. Summarizes the story and provides documenting quotes.
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