Coates Essay

in this day and age. Coates wrote his book as a way to shed light to his son about what it means to live today as a black man. In his book a number his statements are shocking and saddening. The fact that he has to tell his son, "The struggle is really all I have for you because it is the only portion of this world under your control" is truly saddening. As a father usually you'd imagine this image of a protector, who saves their children from the woes of the world. Yet, Coates is open and honest about

person feels. In America, this primal desire to survive is what governs African American men in their daily life as a result of the constant fear that their bodies will be taken from them in an act of violence. In Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehsi Coates writes about the state of black bodies in America, focusing on the racial violence and harassment that black men face on a daily basis, in the form of a letter to his son. It is clear that the black man’s existence in America is established by this

is conveyed in both the major motion picture version of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Moreover, following the argument that there can be more than a single “truth,” what should concern the individual shouldn’t be obeying an truth proposed to be objective, but rather adhering to whatever truth best meets their criteria as true. This said, if someone

Miss Kane’s first grade class at Lutie Lewis Coates Elementary School (also known as Coates Elementary) has twenty students and seventeen of them are considered English Language Learners (ELL) (E. Kane, Personal Communication, October 4, 2016). This is very frustrating for both Miss. Kane and her students because it is very difficult to communicate with many of her ELLs. Out of Miss Kane’s twenty students eight students are Hispanic, five Indian, five Black, and three White. Miss Kane’s class is

In Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Beautiful Struggle, both authors provide first person accounts of the adversity they faced, detailing the emotional, psychological, and physical hardships they endured. Primo Levi recounts the ten months he spent living in a Nazi death camp. While radically different, but thematically similar, Coates addresses growing up as a young black boy in west Baltimore. As a result of their environments, both men were forced to adopt a way of

Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Coates writes a letter to his son and tells him the events that took place in his life. Coates tells his son about the racial stigmas that have haunted him from his childhood and some of the stigmas that are still around in a society like today. Coates does this by using recent events that have been argued over again and again by people in America. Some of the events that are in the book are shootings of African Americans by the police in areas where Coates had lived and other

blacks, which most think racism is a thing from the past. In “Between the World and Me,” Coates argues that racism is still active in America today, and most people do not realize the struggles blacks have to face everyday. Throughout part one, Coates uses credibility, logic, emotion and perfect timing to really demonstrate how much the black community endures. In part one of “Between the World and Me,” Coates gives constant examples on how the black community deals with the loss of their bodies

our bodies safe from all the danger that might happen. Ta-Nehisi Coates has been talking about keeping our bodies safe protected from the danger that happening around the world. People are getting targeted for being different or not being accepted for who they are as humans. First, Ta-Nehisi Coates first talks about keeping his body safe and protected by the white people when talking about his childhood. We first learn that Coates was raised in the town of Baltimore in a black neighborhood

power” (Coates 22). Coates stated that these groups of people used their loudness and rudeness as a façade in order to feel powerful, because just like Coates, they feared for their bodies. This did not surprise me because people everywhere use this tactic in order to feel confident and powerful when they are scared; similar to the phrase “fake it until you make it”. 2. “For the crime of destroying the body of Prince Jones, I did not believe in forgiveness” (Coates 79). In this quote, Coates is demonstrating

Between the World and Me “Between the World and Me”, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is a letter written to his son about what it means to be black and how tough it is to be a part of this race in the United States of America. In this book, Coates talks about his life in the black community, starting from childhood memories all the way to present day. Coates also tries sends a message, which is that his son should not lower his guard and be completely confident about who he is, instead he should be afraid