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Summary of City Limits

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In the story City Limits by Colson Whitehead, he talks about New York. He says how New York is so great that he doesn’t need to go anywhere else. He also states how everyone has their own view of New York and that people start to build their New York when they lay their eyes on it. Since New York changes over time and people come to New York in different times whatever they see is their New York for them. For example, he says that the Pan Am Building is now the Des Moines but in his view of New York, it will always be the Pan Am Building because it was there when he started building his own New York. Also as New York is changing over time places like the pizza store, newsstand, restaurants, movie theaters etc. have changed into new stores, buildings etc. but for him they will stay in their in his eyes. He says that things change so fast that buildings which are gone don’t even have a chance to say goodbye.

City Limits – Summary

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In Colson Whiteheads “City Limits” He explains how he has his own New York, and how everyone else in the city has their own personal New York. He then describes when he first started building his own New York, on the uptown No.1 train. He describes the time in a sarcastic tone saying “It’s the 70’s, so everything is filthy.” In his own New York he thinks everything is still filthy because that’s his own New York. He also talks about how to make your own New York based on strong experiences that you’ve had in the city. He then goes on to explain how you shouldn’t listen to anyone trying to tell you facts about New York because if you didn’t witness it, it didn’t happen in your New York. He says that everyone has their own New York because the buildings are always changing and different people are always visiting at different times so their is no one specific New York to him. He then says in your own new york if your apartments could talk they would have their own stories and gossip about you, He then goes on to say how you should cherish these places because they carry all your old stories and experiences.

Summary of “City Limits”

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In the passage of “City Limits” by Colson Whitehead, he tells the story of New York. He describes NY in few words that it is the greatest city. Colson whitehead was born in NY as well and he loved this place. He says that everybody has their own version of New York and  there are 8 million cities in the naked city. We all see it in our own different ways and we starting seeing that when we first lay our eyes on it. The first instant that you lay your eyes on it, that is the first brick of your New York.  As you live on in new York you build your own New York. The things around us start changing but we still remember how they were. We see them how they were in the past. We see things as they were in our experience while the others see it in their experience or remember it that way. We might still remember the stores or other places that were replaced by new stores. There is a time when we have to say good bye it hard to do that. It is hard to see your favorite shop being replaced by a different shop or leaving you apartment building. However we realize that New York still moves on even if we are not there and that makes us New Yorker. When u realize that than you try and remember your New York version even more and try to fix city in place, your city. You remember everything of Your new York which is replaced but u still remember it the way you experienced it and saw the city  and  for you it will always stay like that. Everybody will remember their own version of it and live on but You will stay here because once you live in New York , You cant live anywhere else.

 

summary of “city limited”

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From Colson Whitehead’s “City Limited”, we see New York City not just a city in his sarcastic and humorous. New York is a city with eight million naked cities in it. Everyone has their own city, based on their memories and that memories create many different “New York Cities”. As one moves, he or she carries the memory and add up to another “city”, thus New York always expanded both physically and mentally. Other people’s New York are not our New York, we built our first brick in New York is based on our first experience in this city, gradually become our own New York. Moreover, since people come from different places, the New York itself also changes physically. However, people still see New York from the past, in their memories, and experience, no matter how New York changes. The old place is the proof that we were here, when the old “building fall, we topple”. That is why it is so important to remember our New York, because we never know when to say goodbye to them and they fall and never come back.New York is the best and it ruin other places, and it will always keep moving and changing, without us it still move on. And we also move on, not hold by the former New York.

City Limits Summary

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City Limits is a story told in Colson Whitehead’s point of view, the story focuses on New York City or “Your New York City” has he often refers to it by, and it is a story that really captivates the feeling of being a New Yorker in a sense. In City Limits the author Colson Whitehead begins the story by asking us the audience how we got to New York City, Colson Whitehead then proceeds to explain how and when is the reader able to be a New Yorker and according to him “you are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.” In a later part of the reading he starts to make comparisons of the past and the present such as “But look past the windows of the travel agency that replaced your pizza parlor.” Those two comparisons are meant to make the reader think and relate about an specific place that they know and loved but now is gone and also to point out that most people that live in New York City do that sort of thinking. After that comparison Colson Whitehead starts to tell the reader that the buildings and streets in New York city sometimes know more than the actual people living in them and that once those buildings are gone our history will go with them as well. With Colson’s description of a New Yorker is no wonder that towards the end of the reading he starts to say that once you are inside New York you will not want to live anywhere else.

“Fort Greene Dreams” summary

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The “Fort Greene Dreams” is the story about the narrator, Nelson George who moved to Fort Greene, east of the Brooklyn from Jamaica, Queens. His new life at Fort Greene became his turning point, influence his life and the grow of his craft, creation. Even though living in Fort Greene was different with the life in Jamaica, Queens. However, the change gave him a fantastic life. A wonderful and fancy apartment, great, convenient transportation, moreover, George, as a music and culture critic, journalist, music editor, and filmmaker, he was always stimulated by the black culture in that period and inspired by the talent people around him; since most of his neighbors were vital writers, designers, musicians, and actors. Living in 19 Willoughby, George not only found his passion in life, and the muse, he also found out what kind the writer, lover, and son he was. He understand himself was more like his mother, a mentor, who supported  and gave advises to the aspiring artists around him. Also, by being close to those artists struggling from lost and exciting from won, he drew the lessons from them and applied those lessons to himself. To “achieving sustained excellence” became his philosophy and gave him “patience and perspective to success”.

 

 

Fort Greene Dreams

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Fort Greene dreams tells the story of Nelson George a music culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker seeking to create a bookshelf of volumes and sustained excellence not only for himself, but for others as well. In the beginning Nelson lives in a small apartment in Jamaica Queens that is until he receives a call from Spike, Nelson George then reveals to the audience that he is planning to move to an area known as Fort Greene which is located in Brooklyn, it is there that his life begins to change not only as a person but also as a culture critic, a journalist, and a filmmaker. When Nelson George gets to Brooklyn he begins to notice that the neighborhood he grew up in is not the same as it was back when he was a child, Nelson George also begins to compare Queens to Brooklyn and how are they different from each other. While working with different artist and aspiring artist Nelson George began to learn more about himself, what type of writer he was and thus learning he was kind of a mentor to other minor artists. When Nelson found out that he was kind of a mentor to aspiring artist he began to help then promote themselves in the artistic medium and eventually that is what he keep doing because according to him “achieving sustained excellence is what I preached to others and sought to myself.”