In Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and in Thoreau’s letter, “Civil Disobedience”, it can be seen that both essays are similar in many ways such as writing styles, strategies, audiences, and purposes. Dr. MLKJ writes to inform his audience on the discrimination on people of color and Thoreau writes to inform his audience on the injustice of unfair and unequal taxes. They both write their essays in a formal letter form to show that their pieces are casual but still relatable to their targeted audiences.
In the beginning of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, Dr. MLKJ starts his letter off by stating why he is in jail. That reason being that he was protesting; he was later roughly arrested with a fellow Southern Christian
In the beginning of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, Dr. MLKJ starts his letter off by stating why he is in jail. That reason being that he was protesting; he was later roughly arrested with a fellow Southern Christian