The highlighted text indicates integration of quotes given from the text along with explanation of her point of view. This is seen as an improvement upon my past writing practice. However, this is a different kind of writing. This was pulled from an annotated bibliography and is, therefore, formatted differently than the past submissions. Comparing this to my first submission, I can see a significant amount of improvement within my writing. Not only does this piece include quotation, but it also explains the author's point of view clearly.

Alexander starts off her review by acknowledging she had expectations of what Coates has to offer in his book “Between the World and Me”, yet, unfortunately, they were not met. She recalls that she was “enthralled by his brilliance and insight” when beginning the book, and by the end she disagreed with Coates’ main point. Coates urges Samori to struggle for himself, not to get lost in the Dream, and make the Dreamers, themselves, struggle. Alexander views this as a hopeless tactic for living in a black body. She disputes it by asking how the Dreamers could possibly learn to come into consciousness when they’ve been behaving the same way for decades. It is their “heritage.” Alexander also points out that the book is unfinished, with unanswered questions scattered throughout the pages. She views the struggle as something much more than just “questioning reality at every turn, yet she also brings up the possibility that the questions Coates proposes also do not have answers. Overall, Alexander views this book as a necessary work that “offers no answers but instead challenges us to wrestle with the questions on our own.” Coates’ thoughts and opinions have been laid out on paper, and it is up to the reader, and Samori, to answer the critical questions themselves.

Alexander, Michelle. "Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’." Sunday Book Review. N.p., 17 Aug. 2015. Web. 14 Oct. 2016