In a response to ta-nehisi coates' "from between the world and me," consider the following questions: what is coates trying to accomplish in this selection, either at the individual level or at the systemic level?

Do you think that the american culture has defined what “normal” is and so our perception of chris mccandless is skewed based on that?

What is the speaker telling the grecian urn in these lines from “ode on a grecian urn”? he wishes the urn could talk so he could hear its stories. he knows the urn will still be around for others to see after he is dead. he fears that when he gets old, the urn will suffer because nobody else will take care of it. he wishes the people frozen on the urn could warm up and come to life.

Who did kipling think would read his poem? what do you think that this audience might have said in response to it?