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What should we make of Rose’s description on pp. 13-18 of his family house and the mixed-race, mixed-ethnicity South Los Angeles neighborhood he grew up in? Try to capture both Rose’s emotional feelings about the places he grew up and the objective dangers he very casually suggests he faced there. Compare Rose’s experiences of his …
Rose house is in a poor neighborhood. The neighborhood consist of old white folks, young black families, and immigrant Mexican. Rose house is small and most of the thing that they have is old and used. His father gets most of these things from a secondary shop when he spends some time there. Rose mostly […] Read More …
question two. When Rose is talking about his neighborhood he is stating how poor it is and when he moved in it was really sketchy. He says “a city that was warm, verdant, vast, and indifferent as a starlet in a sports car.” He is trying to say that it’s just a bunch of people …
I JUST WANNA BE AVERAGE “Some people who manage to write their way out of the working class, describe the classroom as an oasis of possibility. It became their intellectual playground, their competitive arena. Given the richness of my memories of this time, its funny how scant are my recollections of school” “Budding manhood. Only …
Ryan DeLuca Feb 21st, 2019 ENG 123 Dr. Drown Between the World and Me – Prewriting 3 Coates talked about how his school went on about teaching black history month. He doesn’t seem pleased with what they are showing him and his classmates about how black were mistreated. Coates gives this elaboration about what he …
I JUST WANNA BE AVERAGE “The neighborhood was poor, and it was in transition. Some old white folks had lived there for decades and were retired. Younger black families were moving up from Watts and settling by working white class families newly arrived from the South and Midwest.” “Right to the north of us …
What Coates means by this is that there were certain rules you had to follow. Like the school didn’t want you to be curious but rather compliance. Yo had to keep up with your school work and behave in school or else they would suspend you. Thats when the streets will get to you and […] Read More …
Coates writes that “laws of school” were “aimed at something distant and vague” (p. 25). Pull together material from throughout the section of the reading to explain what precisely (and there’s more than one thing) the laws of schools were aimed at. The Place that you supposed to be a process of enlightened yourself. It’s …
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What evidence does Coates give for his assertion that the American Dream is built on the destruction of black bodies? You’ll need to pull together quotes from multiple locations in the reading to answer this question fully. I can see where he’s coming from on that front, but I think that saying that all …
Coates and his son may experience both the same and different experiences. When coates was a boy, laws in the united states were different and society had different morals. “You have some of the same acquaintance with the old rules, but they are not as essential to you as they were to me,” (Coates, pg. …
