Between the World and Me
Between The World and Me uses several metaphors.
Examples
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Examples
Examples of Metaphor:
"America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation to ever exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization"
".... racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscles, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth."
"I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other."
Between the World and Me