As you read Coates, look up historical
references or references to people with whom you are unfamiliar. The
assignment may be shared with me on Google Docs or printed, if Google
Docs is not an accessible app for you.
1. Coates’s first audience for his
book is his son. In what ways do you see that shape the choice of
subjects he addresses or how he approaches those subjects?
2. What lessons is he trying to convey
to his son or hoping his son learns in being raised by Coates and his
wife?
3. Much of Coetes's advice is
surrounded by historical context—both about “the South” and
more recent history. Why do you think he relies so much on history?
What is he saying about our relationship to past events?
4. Though Coates directs this book to
his son, in what ways are you, too, part of the audience? That is,
what is relevant to you in what he’s saying?
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