Nuyorican culture
...worked. There Colon was exposed to many different ideaology such as those of Karl Mark, Emil Zola and Honore de Balzac and was very much infliuenced by them. “From these ideas he formed a personal ideaology that was liked to socialism” When Colon became a teenager he moved to San Juan and was very involved with his school and his community. He served as a director for his school journal Adelante and was the president of the Manuel Fernandez Juncos literary society. He also became a active in political movements and joined the Socialist Party. While in Puerto Rico Colon received little schooling, it was not until his arrival in the U.S. that he finished his secondary level of schooling. “At sixteen, he left Puerto Rico as a stowaway on the SS Carolina and landed in Brooklyn.” From the beginning, Colon was involved in the Puerto Rican community through writing and politics. Colon became one of the New York correspondents for Justicia, a newspaper for the Federacion Libre de Trabajadores in Puerto Rico, and he also became one of the founding members of the first New York Committee of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. Besides all of this Colon worked many unskilled jobs, in factories, as dockworker, dishwasher, waiter, and as a postal clerk. “This exposed him to the atrocities and exploitation of the ‘unskilled’ workers an soon he was championing their cause.” He realized how immagrants faced discrimination which left them a the bottom of the social ladder. This realization of how Puerto Ricans and other immigrants were treated in New York influenced Colon to start writing. His writings were focused toward reform and motivatin others to take part in the change. He wrote about the Puerto Rican community that was begin formed in New York in the early 1900's. Engaging in more than fifity years of w...