“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”, once said Jackie Robinson a famous baseball player. An impact is having a strong effect on someone or something. In certain pieces of literature characters are impacted and affected by the urban setting. Having an urban setting affects the characters or people in the lyrics of “New York, New York” and “Chicago” by Frank Sinatra, the short story “Thank you Ma'am” by Langston Hughes, and the Novel Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman. Characters and people in lyrics are affected from an urban setting. An example of this would in the lyrics of “New York, New York” and “Chicago” by Frank Sinatra. In “New York, New York” the line “I want to wake up, in a city that never sleeps”
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Luella Bates Washington Jones purse and what she does to to him for trying. From the first paragraph it states” It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking home alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to stanch her purse.” (Hughes). The Urban setting was the cause of why the boy stole the purse and why the woman was walking home alone at night. The boy was influenced by things around him like other people doing it and seeing other crimes. The woman walked home because of the story taking place in an urban setting this provided her work to be within walking distance of her house. The sentence “ The boy could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large house.” (Hughes). By being in a city there are a lot of people so there are buildings like a large house where you could rent out homes or apartment buildings. This could be the reason why the boy heard people in other rooms around them. The urban setting affects the characters in “Thank you Ma’am” by Langston in different …show more content…
The novel is about a vacant lot in Cleveland Ohio that becomes a garden to people from the part of the city it is located in. One way how the urban setting affects characters is stated on page 4 of Seedfolks where it mentions Kim planted beans in the vacant lot and that she vowed that would not let the beans die but grow successfully. Kim’s father was a farmer in Vietnam his whole life and died when she was 8 months old. Kim planted the beans to have a connection to her father since she never got to know him. Since she is living in the city she had to plant them in the city garden. Another way of how the urban setting affects the characters is shown is on page eighteen the author wrote “He didn’t want strangers to hear his mistakes. So he used me to make phone calls and to talk to the landlady and to buy things in stores where you had to use english.” (Fleischman). The urban setting caused trouble for Gonzalo and his family who came to the city to as immigrants where once they had a successful one back in Guatemala. Gonzalo's father works in an only spanish speaking environment and does not want to speak english because he does not want other to hear him mess up. The third way an urban setting affects a novel is the second paragraph on page 67 where it states “Three of us from my high school got into this program for pregnant teens. They give you rides to the doctor and help with
Luella Bates Washington Jones purse and what she does to to him for trying. From the first paragraph it states” It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking home alone, when a boy ran up behind her and tried to stanch her purse.” (Hughes). The Urban setting was the cause of why the boy stole the purse and why the woman was walking home alone at night. The boy was influenced by things around him like other people doing it and seeing other crimes. The woman walked home because of the story taking place in an urban setting this provided her work to be within walking distance of her house. The sentence “ The boy could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large house.” (Hughes). By being in a city there are a lot of people so there are buildings like a large house where you could rent out homes or apartment buildings. This could be the reason why the boy heard people in other rooms around them. The urban setting affects the characters in “Thank you Ma’am” by Langston in different …show more content…
The novel is about a vacant lot in Cleveland Ohio that becomes a garden to people from the part of the city it is located in. One way how the urban setting affects characters is stated on page 4 of Seedfolks where it mentions Kim planted beans in the vacant lot and that she vowed that would not let the beans die but grow successfully. Kim’s father was a farmer in Vietnam his whole life and died when she was 8 months old. Kim planted the beans to have a connection to her father since she never got to know him. Since she is living in the city she had to plant them in the city garden. Another way of how the urban setting affects the characters is shown is on page eighteen the author wrote “He didn’t want strangers to hear his mistakes. So he used me to make phone calls and to talk to the landlady and to buy things in stores where you had to use english.” (Fleischman). The urban setting caused trouble for Gonzalo and his family who came to the city to as immigrants where once they had a successful one back in Guatemala. Gonzalo's father works in an only spanish speaking environment and does not want to speak english because he does not want other to hear him mess up. The third way an urban setting affects a novel is the second paragraph on page 67 where it states “Three of us from my high school got into this program for pregnant teens. They give you rides to the doctor and help with