Compare And Contrast Between The World And Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel Between the World and Me is written as if the narrator is telling a story by writing a letter to his son, Samori. It is written similarly to Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time as both novels are written in letter format. The narrator is talking about the fears and differences living in the world as a black person and describes more specifically the fear of harm to the body. Throughout the novel Coates is telling his son about the truth behind their history and his experiences with poetry, love, religion and a few different journeys he went on. Coates begins by telling how he felt as if he always had to be “on guard” as a young adult and that he felt threatened and was quite often fearful of the world around him but as the