Compare And Contrast Amusing Island And Coney Island

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Coney Island a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City that is well known for the beach amusement park component attached to the moniker. Coney Island is also the setting in two works of literature such as Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s novel Manhattan Tropics and José Martí’s newspaper article “Coney Island”. Although these two pieces were written in different times, Cotto-Thorner in and Martí in. They have distinctive similarities and difference.
As a setting Coney Island is known for its loud bolstering atmosphere filled with various people. It is also seen as an escape from the bustle of the city life this occurs in both works of literature. In Manhattan Tropics Cotto-Thorner writes “Yes, it’s true that Coney Island is also rife with noise. But that noise is carried out to sea by the breeze. Coney Island is, moreover, the place for forgetting one’s troubles, and jobs, and debts, and heartaches” (Cotto-Thorner 66). Coney Island for the characters Fini, Antonio and Luisito were seen as an escape haven from their lives. They were allowed to forget everything if even it was just for a few hours. In José Martí’s newspaper article “Coney Island” demonstrates “And this lavishing, this bustle, these crowds, this astounding ant hill lasts from June to October, from morning till midnight, without …show more content…

Immigrating to America, such as New York is to stay and make a life for future generations. Latinos are trying to create a “better” life for their children and give them what they could not succeed in their Latino homes. By preparing for those who follow, children and generations, they want to create a lifestyle to succeed. La Defensa position on the presence of Latino in New York City is that they are coming to gain the same life that others have. They are trying to obtain the same dream but they will do it through hard work and good

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