The Tropics Of New York, By Claude Mckay

The meaning of space? What is it and how do we explain it? When it comes to understanding the meaning of space there isn’t just only one way of doing so. There are many different ways of interpreting space. For instance, a meaning of space is a place where one feels security, and freedom. The person in control is basically the treasure of their own space. The meaning of spaces and places get established through the person-to-place bonds that evolve through emotional connection, and understandings of a specific place. From birth you are routinely brought into a culture where an identity is unsurprisingly given to you. An individual’s attachment to a space and place increases in proportion to its proximity to one’s home and the frequency use

Creation of place is dynamic and influenced by human perception. Theses meanings are always changing because someone’s perception of a place are always changing, depending on time, context and social interactions. For example, in cities, changing the patterns of social communication can make and unmake places, uplifting or diminishing the appeal of a site. Similar to the poem “The Tropics of New York” by Claude McKay and the novel the “Passing” by Nella Larsen and others. In relation to literature you need to pay attention to the little things in the stories that are read. I choose the texts “Passing” by Nella Larsen and “The Tropics of New” by Claude McKay because the two texts provide great examples that push my point even further. The spaces and places that are discussed in literature are usually meant to make you think in a different way about where you fit in. No matter where or how a space or place is in literature, it will aid a character to hold onto their original values from their unique space or place. Although a person may have an emotional connection with a place it always shapes people’s perspective on things such as new spaces and places, there is an emotional connection to

The speaker’s connection to the tropics has influenced his perspective on New York. Also he had a negative emotion towards New York because going there it was not what he was use too. So when he’s there in New York he feels like he is exclude from the place. New York is the complete opposite of what the author is According to McKay “A wave of longing through my body swept, and, hungry for the old, familiar ways I turned aside and bowed my head and wept,” He lives New York but still feels like an