Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between The World And Me

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Would feeling uncomfortable in your own skin be upsetting? Well if you read the book “Between The World and Me” it will show that some people have it hard just because of the color of their skin. As the author of this book writes about his fifteen year old son who had to grow up and learn how to live an American life with different skin. The author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, learns the way of the neighborhood he grew up in, how to survive a hard life, and how do what has to be done. Coates is the author of the story who grew up in a rough suburb area in Baltimore. His parents where always tough on him so he knows what he's gonna face in the real world. He grew up to be a famous author writing the book “Between the World and Me”. Throughout this …show more content…

Most of his education took place at Howard, where he learned more about powerful black men and of his past. One powerful man he studied, was Malcolm X. Coates loved Malcolm X and he is very scared about his son growing up in an America that looks down on African Americans, and shows that there isn’t much in America standing up for them. Now for his son in the book he is a young man growing up in a White America at the age of fifteen. He is still trying to understand why people are hating on him for not being the same …show more content…

Coates shares with his son the story of the truth about American culture through experiences from Howard University, to Baltimore. From his childhood home to the rooms of where children’s lives were taken way too soon, and as America fell apart. But learning about the history gets rid of the past, and embraces the present, and looks forward to future. Being comfortable in your own skin takes a lot of courage and bravery if you are being treated the way Coates and his son were being treated. After reading this book I realized that it was hard growing up with a different style skin, and how different you go treated. This book was not for me, because of how non-advanced I am in reading. It was difficult to keep track of what was going on and I would only recommend this book to the higher level of education or

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