Between The World And Me Rhetorical Analysis

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Countless examples of Coates’ thought and reasoning behind his opinions are expressed in his memoir, Between the World and Me. Coates employs a variety of tactics to express his logos, whether it be cold hard facts, semantic slanting to make his own opinions seem the obvious conclusion, or plainly laying out his argument with no fluff, Coates’ favorite form of logos seems to be to look deep into an event’s causes, finding not just the immediate explanation of an event but the long-forgotten or unnoticed underlying causes, discrediting other opinions that were never built on the deep causes Coates’ is. A beautiful example of this tactic is found when he describes the “killing fields of Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit” (Coates, 111). A passage