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Ryan DeLuca Feb 18th, 2019 ENG 123 Dr. Drown Between the world and me Pre-writing In class we talked about what Coates statement meant, “But race is the child of racism, not the father.” The but in the sentence refers to a sentence in the paragraph above “In this way, racism is rendered as the …
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When Coates explains the fear of his life at the 7-11 it was easy for me to understand. The boy in the ski jacket at the 7-11 wanted to state the power he had by pulling out the gun showing how easily he could of taken Coates life. The reason for that boy doing that […] Read More …
What are some of the “rules of the street” in the Baltimore of Coates’s youth? What does “toughness” mean in that context? What’s the price of toughness? How are those rules a response to the American Dream? This is a Text+Me question. One of the rules of the streets is to know who’s who and …
Question 1: Coates describes the American Dream as “The most gorgeous dream” (pg.11). He uses a memorial day cookout and the smell of peppermint to exhibit his thoughts on the dream. He says “The dream smells like peppermint but takes like strawberry shortcake (pg.11). I think he is saying the American Dream sounds good but …
Coates portray the American Dream as a place where everyone comes together and having a good time. It’s memorial day and there’s cookouts, block associations, and in the dream it smells like peppermints but taste like strawberries. It’s the best place to be with the perfect houses and lawns. What Coates means by that quote […] Read More …
When Coates says “The Dream… wars with the real world” I personally think that he means that this dream seems so unreal when you come to a realization of what the world really is then it all disappears, and he says war because everytime this realization comes to his mind the real world always wins, …
How does Coates portray the American Dream? What does he mean when he says that, for him, “The Dream…wars with the known world” (p. 11)? You’ll need to pull together quotes from multiple locations in the reading to answer this question fully. Coates talks about how a long time ago as Americans we caused destruction and how “its …
