Between The World And Me By Ta-Nehisi

“Where Worlds Collide” is an essay by Pico Iyer who talks about the expectations and reality of Los Angeles through the perspectives of travelers from different backgrounds. In “Where Worlds Collide,” Pico Iyer argues that even though Los Angeles is depicted as a vicinity to receive wealth, happiness, and many opportunities- it is actually the antithesis, and instead, many harsh prejudice and unending craziness will occur instead; Iyer argues this by using allusions, anaphoras, and juxtapositions to help convey what he is saying.

While reading Ta-Nehisi Coates book, Between The World And Me, I came across a thought-provoking quote. Coates states “we did not get to choose our fences, they were imposed on us,” (Coates 42). I believe that Coates meant we are born into this world without a say. We did not have a choice regarding the family and life we were born into. Earlier in the book, Coates mentions a quote from Malcolm X, an African-American Muslim minister, and human rights activist. The quote states “if you’re black, you were born in jail” (Coates 36). Both men hit on the point that some individuals are born into lives where they are unable to be successful due to race, religion, and economic burden. For example, during the early twentieth century, people of color

Ta-Nehisi Coates’, Between the World and Me, articulates an important and meaningful message that is both provocative and insightful. The book starts off in a way that might seem unorthodox, by addressing the book as if it were a letter to his son. This has a more figurative meaning as it is not literally meant for him to read, rather more of the idea that a father must communicate the injustice of race in the United States of America. Coates’ book is not only influential because it expresses views that are not often accepted or said, but compares events and real life scenarios that had impacted him enough to write a book about it. This theme of concern for not only the country, but to all the young black Americans living in today's society

“The crews walked the blocks of the neighborhood, loud and rude, because it was only through their loud rudeness that they might feel any sense of security and power.” (Coates, p. 22) This quote from “Between The World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi shows young men in the streets who wear flashy jewelry, clothes, and act cool to fit in and get into Trouble, which makes them feel powerful and have security. It’s only in these groups, being loud, that they can have that. It relates to the behavior of the author feelings because of the writer felt like he had a hard time with dealing with who he really is. Each race has its own group and faces the challenges of which group to fit in, in order to know who they really are as a person.

Ta- Nehisi Coates between the world and me was my personal choice for the novel for my final paper because of the way it boldly and freely explores the thought of what it is like to black in America and how that thought relates to the concept Coates calls the “dream”. Coates uses the lens of the American dream to show how people who believe in it are only dreamers and that leads him to believe that white supremacy is the one reality in America and he uses his experiences as an African American child growing up all the way to having a son of his own. Writing the book to his fifteen year old son Coates sums up the general consensus of his thoughts by saying “I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the dream, is the question of my life, is the question of my life the pursuit of this question, I have found, ultimately answers itself.”(pg12) In this Coates lays out the most critical sentence to

agent of our world’s physical laws.” Although the officer that who shot Jones was black, Coates

Between the World and Me In the book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a letter to his 15-year-old son who is trying to make sense of his position in this racially injustice society. In the letter, Coates traces all his personal experiences through his childhood in Baltimore, his time at Howard University, encounters with the police, and even “the streets.” The explanation of how America’s violent background has now shaped the conditions for the modern black man in American is the most powerful message encountered in Coates’ Between the World and Me.

Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehish Coates is a compelling book about the white supremacy in America and how hard it is being black in America. Coates using this book as a measure to discuss the issues of race within this critical time of multiple hostile incidents. Just as James Baldwin did in his book The Fire Next Time, with his letter address to his nephew at the height of the civil rights movement, Coates models after his method. Coats and Baldwin write these books as guides during these critical moments in history not to aspire to any larger themes of overcoming or transcending “race” as a way to defeat racism but about the ways of survival and remembering. Coates is a realist who yet still find the beauty within the unequal disparities in America. How it is so apparent to see the devalue of black American live. Through out this novel Coasts examines the deeper meaning and values of black bodies he brings it together by describing his own personal experiences as a child in Baltimore, as a student as Howard, as a writer, and importantly as a parent. All these experience allow Coates to see the large overview of America’s history of brutality to black bodies, and the invention of race as form of social hierarchy. Coats uses of the quote “they made us a race, we made ourselves the people” he wants us to understand that while whites created the race for black as a social hierarchy with them as the dominant race, although he feels they are truly

In Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses the brutal racism and prejudice that he has experienced, in the form of the letter. This format permits him to provide the audience with personal anecdotes in which he was the victim, as well as stories of friends and colleagues being victimized. Each example provides insight into the question of whether or not one can be free as an African American. More importantly, he outlines what it means to be free in America. Coates provides a pessimistic outlook on this question in the form of a letter addressed to his son, Samori. This allows the audience to feel sympathy towards Samori as well as others trapped in the same skin. This was a new experience for me, being that I am neither male

The book between the world and me Coates begins the book with a direct address to his son, Samori. He depicts a time when he is talking on a television show and is requested to disclose losing his body. Coates considers the way that white American advance has been built through the misuse and mistreatment of dark individuals and that despite the fact that Americans "idolize" vote based system, this is fraudulent on the grounds that the nation has never really been a vote based country. At the point when President Lincoln pronounced that the US would be managed by a "government of the people," African Americans were excluded in the classification of personhood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me talks about large portions of the issues confronting today's general public. Coates ponders his own particular life and voices his worries through his narrating. There were numerous takeaways from the novel and is an unquestionable obligation perused for everybody, not simply African Americans.

In the autobiography of Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates explains how the education system shackled him, instead of empowering him to liberate his soul and mind. It wasn’t until he was enrolled in Howard University, where he found comfort in an educational system. Before attending Howard University, Coates was blinded by society’s view of the “black body”, and what it was capable of accomplishing. The limitations and lack of support on their side, bounded African Americans and made them feel insecure. The discrimination African Americans faced in their daily lives was no different in an educational environment.

In Intensive Writing class, we read a book Ta-Nehisi Coates called Between the World and Me. I thought you would find this book interesting. It is about Coates struggle with his race in American society. I think that this book has many strong arguments about problems that we are facing as a society today, but it has a tendency to examine everything with an undertone of anger that leads to an obvious bias. I implore you to read thoughtfully and with empathy. I will explain my overall thoughts on the book for you to compare to your own later.

In Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates composes a letter for his adolescent son Samori, in which he addresses the plights faced by black people in contemporary American society. He does so by encapsulating America’s history of racism and violence, as well as recounting his own personal experiences. Throughout his message of guidance to his son, Coates speaks at length about the historical and modern-day maltreatment of the black body, which he asserts is the driving force of racism. He avers that the perennial cycle of racism is perpetuated by society’s inclination to exploit, manipulate, and control the black body. The level of abuse and control that black bodies are subjected to by this racist society begs the question of how a person is to live freely within one.

In Between The World And Me the author writes a letter to his fifteen year old son (Samori) about how to live in a black body in America. Coates tells his son about how he was growing up in the ghettos of Baltimore and learning the codes of the streets in order to survive. His father was hard on him, but now he sees that black parents often are so they don’t lose their children to violence’s in the streets. In the city of Baltimore the way to grow up black was usually to grow up poor and reckless to assert one humanity. The swagger and loudness of the men outside on the streets corners of Baltimore were the way they protect themselves and to announce the fact of them being present as human beings.