Speech v.s. Letter
What would you respond to more? A message that provokes your emotions or appeals to logic, MLK uses both so he can appeal to both people, but in his speech he changes how much of logos and pathos he uses for different crowds. In the letter that Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) sent to the 8 white clergymen he wrote about their criticism towards his protesting for black people’s rights
In the letter that MLK wrote in the margins of a newspaper to the 8 white clergymen he used more logos than pathos. Some examples of logos are “ Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches and Birmingham than any other city in the nation (MLK, 273).” this
What would you respond to more? A message that provokes your emotions or appeals to logic, MLK uses both so he can appeal to both people, but in his speech he changes how much of logos and pathos he uses for different crowds. In the letter that Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) sent to the 8 white clergymen he wrote about their criticism towards his protesting for black people’s rights
In the letter that MLK wrote in the margins of a newspaper to the 8 white clergymen he used more logos than pathos. Some examples of logos are “ Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches and Birmingham than any other city in the nation (MLK, 273).” this