Momna Asif,

Ms, Rosario

Ap language and composition

December 1st, 2017

​Rhetorical Analysis

How would you feel when you didn't get justice just because of your body color?

Ta - Nehisi Coates​ makes the argument that African Americans should not be treated like

animals or be dehumanized in the book​ ​Between The World And Me​. The author writes in an

informal tone for his 14 years old son but specifically for the American society. Coates support

his argument by using the rhetorical choices such as pathos, logos and metaphor to defend

argument about racisms. The author’s purpose is to inform the African American about the

racism so that people can get their rights, get the justice in the society.

Ta- Nehisi Coates develop a rhetorical appeal ​logic​ally to make his argument about the racism

against Africans Americans in the American society.

“But race is the child of racism, not the father.” (Paragraph#5 line). The meaning of this quote

is white people always mistreating the black Americans. Coates wants to say that race is not

entirely connected to the genes and the physical features, and white people established that long

ago. This is the logic of the white people. They just judge the people by their color and the race,

and they have their own opinion. Coates wants to change the opinion of the white people. “

America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion

standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorist, desposts, barbarians, and other

enemies of civilization.” (Para # 7 line 5).

In this quote Americans views itself as the highest powerful nation. White people or Americans

think they are above everyone and the other is poor just because of the skin color. Americans is

treating african americans really bad and its American conceptinal. They thinks that America

has more opportunities than the other countries that makes them powerful. America has its own

opinion about itself, but people thinks that more racism is occured in the U.S.

Ta- Nehisi Coates develop a rhetorical appeal ​ Metaphor ​ to make his argument about the

racism against Africans Americans in the American society.

“ America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone

champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorist, desposts, barbarians,

and other enemies of civilization.” (Para # 7 line 5). In this quote the metaphor is comparing

“America as champion”. America thinks itself as the above of everyone. America has more

power and opportunities than the other. America want to see itself on the top but the reality is

very different.

The other part of metaphor is “ racism is visceral experience, that is dislodges brains, blocks

airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, crack bones, breaks teeth”. In this quote the metaphor is “

racism as a beating”. The effect of the racism on the african americans is not just hurt the internal

also hurt physically. It also affect african american people as not treated the same as they should

treated at the time. There were no one on their side​ ​even though the police too which makes the

black people to live under fear. Racism is to bad its effect the people life. It convinced some

people to lost their lives.

Ta- Nehisi Coates develop a rhetorical appeal ​ Pathos ​ to make his argument about the

racism against Africans Americans in the American society.

“The predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear. The law didn’t protect

us, the law has become an excuse for stopping and frisking you, which is to say, for furthering

the assault on your body.” This quote is specifically about the African americans, that they don't

have right. The law is against to the african people just because of the skin color, just because of

race. A black men who was beaten by the 4 white cops just because his skin color, and the cops

were found not guilty. It's not a justice, that's not American as the champion where people don't

have right of equality. The law of nation did not support a men. In that nation where cops didn’t

protect the people who can trust that. This is the example of the pathos because its touches the

feeling by their words choice and the way he explain it.

The impact of all these rhetorical choices used by the author to aware the people who is living

in this society and staying quiet. If you see something say something.