The Tree of Heaven
by May Sinclair
The celestial tree benefits from Sinclair's experience in World War I. Worried about the Harrison family, the film follows three children, Michael, Nicky and Dorothy, who grow up in the 1900s and face war at a young age. Dorothy meets a suffragette who imprisons her, then trains with the Red Cross and attends the emergency room in Belgium. Michael is an avant-garde poet who embraces pacifism and resists family pressure to participate. Nicky is an engineer who got engaged early and invented an early prototype of the tank. The novel examines the ideals of the voting rights movement, the spiritual escalation of war, and the personal expenses that both can receive from those involved.
