Between the World and Me is a letter written by Ta – Nehisi Coates to his son Samori. The overall mood throughout the book gave the audience a cold, dreary feeling.
The books purpose is to familiarize the author’s son and the audience with what a black person deals with on a day-to-day basis in America. Racism has always been apart of American history. Everyone grows up in different areas, with different different people with different challenges. Coates begins the book talking about how his son at age 15 saw Eric Garner choked to death, Renisha Mcbride was shot, the murder of Tamir Rice and Marlene Pinnock. He uses these instances at the beginning to talk about a constant theme throughout the book. The people who shot and murdered these …show more content…
The school systems were set up for failure. It was more important for teachers to educate their students on learning laws rather then colors and shapes. Coates view on the streets and school were nearly identical. If it was the streets that caused one problem, school caused the other. There was essentially no way out. Coates’s father would often beat him when he was little. If it weren’t his father beating him it would be the police. Coates was living in this world in which he was trapped. He often talked about the dream in which Coates was referring to nice homes with beautiful lawns, barbeques and more. It was this idea that was easily attainable for whites rather then …show more content…
He faced lots of poverty living in New York City and often felt the racial divide. One instance was when Coates went to the theater to see a play. A white women pushed his son yelling “Come on”. Coates felt like his body was always under a huge threat. Another major theme Coates describes towards the end of the book is how it’s been traditional to destroy the black body. He’s referring to the stolen bodies that were worth four billion dollars during the civil war. Coates described how the American reunion was built on making enslavement into benevolence, white knights into body snatchers and the mass slaughter into a sport. The constant theme of the black body being under scrutiny was in full
The books purpose is to familiarize the author’s son and the audience with what a black person deals with on a day-to-day basis in America. Racism has always been apart of American history. Everyone grows up in different areas, with different different people with different challenges. Coates begins the book talking about how his son at age 15 saw Eric Garner choked to death, Renisha Mcbride was shot, the murder of Tamir Rice and Marlene Pinnock. He uses these instances at the beginning to talk about a constant theme throughout the book. The people who shot and murdered these …show more content…
The school systems were set up for failure. It was more important for teachers to educate their students on learning laws rather then colors and shapes. Coates view on the streets and school were nearly identical. If it was the streets that caused one problem, school caused the other. There was essentially no way out. Coates’s father would often beat him when he was little. If it weren’t his father beating him it would be the police. Coates was living in this world in which he was trapped. He often talked about the dream in which Coates was referring to nice homes with beautiful lawns, barbeques and more. It was this idea that was easily attainable for whites rather then …show more content…
He faced lots of poverty living in New York City and often felt the racial divide. One instance was when Coates went to the theater to see a play. A white women pushed his son yelling “Come on”. Coates felt like his body was always under a huge threat. Another major theme Coates describes towards the end of the book is how it’s been traditional to destroy the black body. He’s referring to the stolen bodies that were worth four billion dollars during the civil war. Coates described how the American reunion was built on making enslavement into benevolence, white knights into body snatchers and the mass slaughter into a sport. The constant theme of the black body being under scrutiny was in full