- The speaker isĀ Ta-Nehisi Coates and we know he love his family. We know he love his family because he talking about how he like his brother and sisters.
- The occasion is the use of the word nigger. The urgent demand is to ban the use of the word nigger and we should let itĀ ādie the death it deserves.ā
- The audience is the people around the world. The clues that led me to believe this is that theĀ the commissioners of the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball was bought up to live television to talk about it and people worldwide was watching.
- The purpose of this piece is to convince people to stop using the n word. Coates is trying to accomplish the stoppage of violent terms that we use on one another.
- The tone of this piece is frustration. I can tell the feelings of the writer by looking at the certain word choice he uses for example when Coates stated “āNiggerā is the border, the signpost that reminds us that the old crimes donāt disappear. It tells white people that, for all their guns and all their gold, there will always be places they can never go”.
- I no other thoughts about this essay.
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Language and Identity
