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Prompt: Choosing a handful of specific passages in Between the World and Me, make an argument about how Coates is using rhetoric. Specifically, what moves is Coates making to convince his readers? Please note that I'm not necessarily asking if you find him successful in this task. The greater question is simply how is working to make his readers understand him and grasp what he's trying to communicate. More than anything, what I'm looking for is for you to really dig into the details of how a text impacts the readers.

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Rhetorical Analysis Of Between the World and Me
Ta-nehisi Coates wrote a memoir addressed to his son, Samori, in the book titled
Between the World and Me. In the memoir, Ta-nehisi Coates discusses the Dream and what the
Dream consists of. Coates instills advice to the son from the cut experience of the father. The
book's main message is to educate his son on white supremacy and arouse his logic to be ready
to face obstacles and deal with them as a black American. Beyond the book's boundaries, Coates
extends his audience to illuminate the effects of racism in American society. Readers thus
become his audience. Between the World and Me is a perfect example of writing beyond
scholarly texts. Coates uses ethos, pathos, and logos to convince his audience of racism's
impulsive force. Carefully, Coates avoids clinching arguments such that the memoir would look
like a rant between white and black races. However, he refers to the Dream in a variety of ways
to show that racism bodies problems in American society. The essay's main aim is to assess how
rhetoric is used in Coates' Between the World and Me.
Hate gives identity. Black people are often looked at from the worst, while whites looked
at them from the best. Coates writes, "Hate gives identity. The nigger, the fag, the bitch
illuminates the border, illuminates what we ostensibly are not, illuminate the Dream of being
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white, of being a Man." This rhetorical appeal Coates uses helps reader...
