Fear In Coates's Between The World And Me

In the novel “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author is able to bring in a large range of emotions to his large, diverse, growing audience. His book has many events where one may relate or can imagine the situation as Coates brought the words to life. In the topic of fear and love, it is subjective to determine what love is. It can come from friendship, and more intimate relationships, but the term changes based on perspective. Fear may also be subjective as one’s fears may be another’s strengths. As Coates further explains the history of his family and his new experiences entering college, “grew up in a house drawn between love and fear (61)” I felt like my situation fell into his description. Even though he was speaking

Physical abuse was never in his vocabulary and yet, I was becoming fearful. The lies I heard whenever my mother spoke to her friends were huddled together, and jumped at my mind, ripping apart my perfect painting of him. Though I have not seen the blue and purple tints on her body, nor the abuse myself, I was trapped in her loop of lies. Lies that tore family members apart for her own advantage, and usage of power. The delusions that broke the trust and love in the family and the delusions that made my mom feel like it was her against the world. Her mind was tainted with a hue of black no one but herself could erase. All of the things she told me about him were coming together to illustrate a monster as my

My mother whom I cherished, thought of me as an asset to receiving money. To end the feud, my brother suggested to buy her a plane ticket to Vietnam since she said she was unhappy in the states. She was not willing to leave unless she had an item brought with her and it was money. She wanted to sell the house and split the profit 50/50, but she barely deserves 10% of the total. My father was always paying for everything and my sister took over partially at 17, and fully at the age of 19. Both of them working full-time, my mother only worked three days a week, barely 25 hours a week, making 10,000-15,000 a year, but wanted fifty percent of the earnings from the home. Only giving my sister a thousand dollars once towards the bills, she believed everything was paid as she told others, our bills only rack to $200-$300 a