Between The World In Me Analysis

Before reading the book I knew nothing about the author. I thought the book was going to be so boring, but it turned out to be interesting. I didn’t agree with everything he mentions in the book, but overall it was a good book. He is very intelligent by the ways he uses words to express himself and how he feels. He name the title of this book Between the World in me after a poem by Richard Wright. This book really inspired me because Mr. Coates had a hard life growing up from Baltimore. He grew up around nothing but violence and it’s very rare that you make some out of yourself. I personally grew up from a place where many don’t make it past 20, either they are dead or in jail. I refused to go down that path. I want to be somebody that the younger children’s …show more content…
Mr. Coate’s goal was to open young Africans Americans eyes about the struggles that we have to go through. I feel that he achieved that goal. Today it’s sad to see that racism still exists in our homes, neighborhood, communities and nation. It’s been many environmental events that occurred that let the world know that racism still exists, including Travon Martin, Mike Brown, Charleston church shooting, and more. Sometimes it makes me feel that I’m not safe because the color of my skin. The book Between the World and me is a letter written story for Mr. Coate’s son. He wants his son to know about the racial injustice in America. Also that one person can’t change the world. We have to really come together as a whole if we really want the world to be a better place. Coates feel that that will never happen. In Coate’s eyes blacks will never be anything in life, but a disappointment and a failure. He starts the letter off by telling his son about the day a TV host asked him what it meant to lose his body. He explained how it made him feel less of a person, but his answer was American history. I feel that Mr. Coates wanted his son to know that it’s