The author uses an analogy to compare himself to, to describe the way he is being treated in this situation. A woman has just put her hands on the authors child and, he decided to speak up about it. Attention is drawn to their confrentation and a white male has come to the white womans defense without any knowledge of the events that transpired. Coates writes “A white man standing nearby spoke in her defense. I experienced this as his attempt to rescue the damsel from the beast.”(94). Coates is thought to the victim in this situation when in reality it is quite the opposite. In coates passage he is comparing himself as the beast but this is a depiction from the point of view of the man who has stepped in to help the “dasmal” that the “beast”
