How does Coates's authorial perspective relate to his overarching journalistic claims?

Throughout The Message, Coates uses the first person singular, first-person plural, second-person, and first-person direct address points of view. He employs first-person singular pronouns when he is sharing his personal experiences with the reader; this vantage point endears him to his audience and humanizes him as an individual. He employs the second-person and the direct address when he is calling his readers to action or fostering trust with his reader. These vantage points affect an intimate mood. He uses the first-person plural when he is dismantling the hierarchy between the writer and reader, the teacher and student. These point of view choices enact Coates's overarching ideas that writing can create community, storytelling can foster connection, and reading can beget understanding.

How and why does Coates incorporate personal anecdotes into his larger arguments?

In each of the...