Time after time we here about Martin Luther King and all he has done to create and improve the country for minority groups. While in jail Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to the white clergymen regarding his present activities; he was an outsider and his protests were untimely and unwise. King successfully rebuttals these claims through establishing his credibility and generating a candid tone which he then uses to proclaim that it is “... the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.” and push people to create a society where segregation no longer exists.
Martin Luther King effectively counters the white clergymen with his claim of not being that he is not an outsider in Birmingham.“...I, …show more content…
To effectively counter this argument King writes a direct rebuttal to this accusation. King primarily organizes his writing with anaphora with each thought beginning with, “But when you have seen” directly before sighting his own experiences with “vicious mobs”, “hate filled policemen” ,and the moment he witnesses “his own daughter beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people,” to give examples of his own experiences that had caused himself and others to become emotionally invested in their drive for change. Through pathos, King draws to his recollection of bitter times when he fought “a degenerating sense of "nobodiness", and was forced to “ sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile” because of the very real effects segregation was still having on the black community. The most important writing choice MLK chose to take advantage of is the power of an emotionally charged periodic sentence that encompasses his entire counter-argument. By using a periodic sentence with semicolons to attach each example he gives of personal disregard by segregation, King continually builds upon each successive clause to allow his ending to be infinite and firmly
Martin Luther King effectively counters the white clergymen with his claim of not being that he is not an outsider in Birmingham.“...I, …show more content…
To effectively counter this argument King writes a direct rebuttal to this accusation. King primarily organizes his writing with anaphora with each thought beginning with, “But when you have seen” directly before sighting his own experiences with “vicious mobs”, “hate filled policemen” ,and the moment he witnesses “his own daughter beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people,” to give examples of his own experiences that had caused himself and others to become emotionally invested in their drive for change. Through pathos, King draws to his recollection of bitter times when he fought “a degenerating sense of "nobodiness", and was forced to “ sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile” because of the very real effects segregation was still having on the black community. The most important writing choice MLK chose to take advantage of is the power of an emotionally charged periodic sentence that encompasses his entire counter-argument. By using a periodic sentence with semicolons to attach each example he gives of personal disregard by segregation, King continually builds upon each successive clause to allow his ending to be infinite and firmly