Community College Class: "Between the World and Me," TaNehisi Coates

Between the World and Me: Coates moves his family to Paris to protect them from America:Between the World and Me: 34 pages; 12,436 words, visuals_____________________________________________________________________“Between the World and Me,” Richard WrightAnd one morning while in the woods I stumbledsuddenly upon the thing,Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scalyoaks and elmsAnd the sooty details of the scene rose, thrustingthemselves between the world and me....There was a design of white bones slumbering forgottenlyupon a cushion of ashes.There was a charred stump of a sapling pointing a bluntfinger accusingly at the sky.There were torn tree limbs, tiny veins of burnt leaves, anda scorched coil of greasy hemp;A vacant shoe, an empty tie, a ripped shirt, a lonely hat,and a pair of trousers stiff with black blood.And upon the trampled grass were buttons, dead matches,butt-ends of cigars and cigarettes, peanut shells, adrained gin-flask, and a whore's lipstick;Scattered tr