Analysis Of Black Mass

What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?

Even though he didn’t have a large quantity of friends, he did have high quality friends. Those friendships prospered because of the things he did for them.

• What are their outstanding qualities? Does the author give any indication as to how or why the character developed these qualities?

of the people in his city and he becomes loved. He did a great deed for his people, and he felt very gratifying about it. Although this played a role in his personality

and moral courage to enable him to survive through his hardships. He is a good example

His father, Ernest, greatly influenced his life, both as a child and today. Many of his character traits he said his father taught him. He described his father as a hard-nosed, strict man with a soft heart.

a laid back manner which many people seemed to like. He was well respected in his village, but

He was a tough, intelligent, compassionate, and inarguably fearless man who was incredibly comfortable in his own skin. He is missed and remembered with a lot of love.

Having six siblings as a child, and being the youngest, not much attention was payed to him. His family was not very wealthy, and having five other siblings did not help. His father was in World War II,so he grew up most of the time with basically one other boy in the house, his older brother. Growing up, he was generally left to himself, so he was out of the house often, more and more as he grew up, with his friends. He did not play any organized sports, because their really was not enough time for it with so many children, although his brother was involved in Little League Baseball.

He was always determined to what he set his mind to he never let anyone change his mind on what he was determined to accomplish. Everyone in the video said he was a great man and was a hard headed worker which in my head made me think he loved doing what he was doing and loved the ones who appreciate him the most and were there for him threw it all.

extraordinary courage in the face of injustice and inhumanity. He had a resolute intent to do what is

Black bodies have always been treated with unfairness ever since the days of slavery and even present day. Ta-Nehisi Coates portrays in his text the amount of equivalence and dignity blacks are shown in the United States. The destruction of black bodies were a very big deal in USA's early history. Coates grew up in Baltimore, known to be a very dark area back in the day. In addition his parents had a huge hand on his childhood, literally and figuratively. As Ta-Nehisi grew up, he began to understand that everything that the African Americans did in Baltimore, did it for a reason. Which also can explain how he would bring up his young son as well, but things took a change his mind when one of his classmates were killed by a policeman, for being black. Finding the disturbing news of his classmate’s death changed the perspective of Coates way of bringing up children.

The other characteristic he exhibits is personal fable. He feels that his life is destined for something bigger than what has been set out for him. He believes there is something unique about himself that he needs to share with the world. While his father and everyone else, including his friends, look down on this idea of breaking out of the mold he still stuck with his idea of becoming something bigger and better. At the end of the story he does in fact become the town hero and his dreams of greatness come to fruition as he grows

stuck to dreams and what he wanted to accomplish even after through all of his failures and

He lived a steady life until his father died when he was 6. When this happened he had to take care of his two younger siblings. Over the years of raising his siblings and managing all of these jobs, it taught him many character traits that would be important later in life. Such as responsibility, compassion and commitment. It taught him these character traits because he had to run multiple jobs every day and manage 2 children.