Analysis Of Between The World And Me

The Book “between the world and me” published in 2015, was written by a black author named Ta- Nehisi Coates. Coates wrote this book as a memoir to his son which at the time was in his teenage years. In this memoir, Coates expresses to his son the feelings, life, dream, and ambition of being a young African-American male in America. Throughout the book, Coates brings up major arguments such as “what does it mean to be free, the American dream, being black in America, and that America operates under race”. I perceive that the major argument in this memoir is simple the fact that. Being black in America is a struggle that we will always have to live with. And in doing so we have to be cautious and aware that being black in America has its hardships.

When he appears to the reader's intellect he says “the fact of history is that black people have not-probably no people have ever- liberated themselves strictly through their own efforts”. This quote appeals to the readers because Coates indicates that the history of black people in America is that we never been free in this country by our own personal actions. Coates further appeals to the reader's intellect by saying “history is not solely in our hands. And still, you are called to struggle, not because it assures you to victory but because it assures you an honorable and sane life”. In this quote, Coates explains that the history of being black in America is a struggle but it is a struggle worth black people being honorable of when we can overcome the struggle. The appealing of intellect is the Aristotelian appeal logos. When Coates goes further into his memoir the more he incorporates the Aristotelian appeal

In other words, Coates appealed to his readers by focusing on the morality of being black in America. This type of Aristotelian appeal is called ethos. Coates displays ethos on page 107 when he tells his son “you have been cast in a race in which the wind is always in your face and the hounds are always at your heels.” What Coates really is saying is that as long as we are black in America. The dogs which are people will always look to try to make us feel like our race is at the bottom of the human food chain. Coates further goes into detail when he says “and hell upon those who tell us to be twice as good and shoot us no matter. Hell for ancestral fear that put black parents under terror. And hell upon those who shatter the holy vessel”. In this quote, Coates places a judgment on the same people that try to protect us then turn around and kill us. The explanation Coates gives shows us that morally being black in ame3eica is a burden when America plays two faces in front of our