"The American Dream"
“The American Dream” In the novel, “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the “American dream”, “American legacy” or mostly referenced as “The Dream” is a huge theme throughout the book. Coates tackles broad questions such as how “our country is lost in the dream” and what social injustices are the american people asleep to? Depending on where you live geographically and what class you are (rich, middle, or poor) will impact your knowledge on what’s going on in the world and if it should mean anything to you. When Coates says american’s are living in a dream, he means a bubble. usually the richer class does not care to look outside their bubble of acquired wealth and status and see the huge economic struggles and social injustices African Americans experience daily. One of these social injustices that Coates directly experiences himsel