Analysis Of Between The World And Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Throughout the book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates sways in the idea of the struggles he went through to find his identity and his position in America as a Black man. However, in pages 60 to 90, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes it evident that the experiences who once made him struggle to find his identity, ended up being what defined his character. Those same experiences were ingrained in Coates being, so much so that he knew how were the lives of those who were born in a black body. Coates expresses how in the inside, black people control nothing. He supports this through the death of his friend Prince Jones, through his stance and thoughts about slavery and through the loss of innocence of black men and women. First of all, Coates once knew a man named Prince Jones, who he deeply admired from the bottom of his heart. Coates describes Prince Jones as a tall black, …show more content…
I dare to say that Jones Death was the apotheosis of Coates’ career as an Author and a Journalist. Ever since the death of Jones, Coates has been actively arguing about cultural, social and political issues, particularly as they regard African-Americans. The death of prince Jones was certainly not the only event where Coates perceived the hostile and racist environment that radiated in the country nor it was the first time he witnessed racial injustice. But this time it was different, this was not an article in the local newspaper, nor it was a new on a local tv news channel. This was real, Jones was someone Coates knew and loved, not just another dead black man who once again fell victim to police brutality. Which not only awoke a very deep and ardent point of view within Coates, but also made him reflect that if the body of a man like Jones was destroyed for no reason, that proves that black men don not even control their own