Between The World And Me Compare And Contrast

Each piece of writing will be different in some way, even if they are about the same topic. Factors like personal biases or tone and skill level can go into one’s writing making the outcome of each final product be different, but still be over the same topic. No two pieces of writing will ever be totally alike, but will have similarities and differences like most things in the world. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples, and “Open Letter to a Young Black Man” by Jesse Owens are all memoirs that address race and race conflict in America. All of these stories have the same overall topic, but are not the exact same. Similarities are the use of personal narration and pathos, but they do not have the same audience or assertion. First, the memoirs use personal narration of events, that is what memoirs do. The use of personal narrations is how the author constructed their story over race by reflecting and telling a personal memory. This can show a primary source’s view, which can help draw the reader in, because it’s not just all facts, which can be hard to follow or uninteresting. Coates’ memoir is about his personal memories of blacks being treated poorly. Staples’ memoir is about walking the streets of

Coates’ assertion was that black people were treated poorly. He gets this across to the reader by using direct examples and memories from his personal life. Owens’ assertion is to not lose your sense in humanity and this message can get across by him saying “You seem black isn’t beautiful. White isn’t beautiful. Skin-deep is never beautiful.” Then Staples’ assertion is how he made a better person out of himself through racial discrimination towards him. A example he gave was being discriminated while with a journalist. Each assertion will cause the authors to set up their writing different and have different information, but their stories still all involved