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The Tropics In New York Poem Analysis

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Racism and the role of women are two major problems in today 's world but from reading one poem and one short story you 'll see that these problems have been going on for a while. The poem “The Tropics in New York” tells about racism and how sometimes we are separated by the color of our skin. The short story “I Stand Here Ironing” explains how a single mother must make the hard decisions of a women and how her role plays out. One may learn a great deal from reading works of literature. The poem “The Tropics in New York” by Claude McKay is a poem about racism. It starts off talking about fruit and how they are beautiful. The poem goes on and talks more about the different types of fruits, and how they remind him of things he has seen. Towards the end …show more content…

When he moved he realized that the place he is in now has a lot of judging and inequality. The world isn 't perfect, it is only what we make it out to be. In the short story “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen a mother is on the phone with someone about her daughter needing some sort of assistance. During the course of the story the unnamed mother starts to think about all the things that she did wrong in raising her daughter. She starts to think about what she should have done, and how it is her fault that her daughter is ending up in this position. Her daughter, Emily, was abandoned by her father and placed in her mother 's care. It demonstrates how a women took up her role as a mother and the role that women play in society. To critics the short yet meaningful story demonstrates social changes.One criticsaid that it “asserts its dominance by silencing uses of language that devote from it”(Kamel, 176). Sources also talked about how the author speaks for the people, and how the story values the

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