A reader’s attraction to a text is developed through various avenues of appeals; three main appeals include pathos appeal, logos appeal, and ethos appeal. In the book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Coates combines these strategies in attempt to pulls the readers’ attention and to affect their emotions, their trust, or their logical reasoning. Coates is a black man who writes a pessimistic letter to his son explaining his view of life as a black man living in a white world. The two are at odds with each other, and throughout Coates writings he cites examples of these.
The need of evidence to support Coates’s argument is something I feel as though he is lacking. For example, Coates said, “All you need to understand is the officer …show more content…
Or even in society today, Coates must not realize there are white females who marry black men and white men who marry black females. He doesn’t see the good in a white man who stops to help a homeless black man who calls a bridge his home. He must not recognize that black men and women are leaders and have people who follow and support them. Coates doesn’t see the black basketball coach who is respected by twelve teenage white girls. If he does, he has failed to persuade myself, as a reader, that white people are more than a stereotype. This makes it hard as a white person to accept the blame that Coates is blaming ME for. Every man, ultimately is responsible for his or her own successes and failures. Accountability is on the shoulders of I, not …show more content…
“.. I didn’t comfort you because I thought it would be wrong to comfort you. I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay,” said Coates to his son. This pains a reader like me to read. What kind of father doesn’t comfort his child when he or she is crying? Coates should have encouraged his son to have hope that things could get better. “You can make a difference, son. You be the change you want to see. Stand up for what you believe in. I believe in you. I’m here for you. Let’s talk about how you feel, and I will listen to you.” That’s how I feel Coates should have responded to his crying son, but he didn’t. My heart shattered into a million pieces when I read this, but for the exact opposite reason that Coates wanted my heart to break
The need of evidence to support Coates’s argument is something I feel as though he is lacking. For example, Coates said, “All you need to understand is the officer …show more content…
Or even in society today, Coates must not realize there are white females who marry black men and white men who marry black females. He doesn’t see the good in a white man who stops to help a homeless black man who calls a bridge his home. He must not recognize that black men and women are leaders and have people who follow and support them. Coates doesn’t see the black basketball coach who is respected by twelve teenage white girls. If he does, he has failed to persuade myself, as a reader, that white people are more than a stereotype. This makes it hard as a white person to accept the blame that Coates is blaming ME for. Every man, ultimately is responsible for his or her own successes and failures. Accountability is on the shoulders of I, not …show more content…
“.. I didn’t comfort you because I thought it would be wrong to comfort you. I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay,” said Coates to his son. This pains a reader like me to read. What kind of father doesn’t comfort his child when he or she is crying? Coates should have encouraged his son to have hope that things could get better. “You can make a difference, son. You be the change you want to see. Stand up for what you believe in. I believe in you. I’m here for you. Let’s talk about how you feel, and I will listen to you.” That’s how I feel Coates should have responded to his crying son, but he didn’t. My heart shattered into a million pieces when I read this, but for the exact opposite reason that Coates wanted my heart to break