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The intended audience of “Letter From Birmingham Jail” is the clergyman and a bigger group of people. At the beginning of the letter, Dr. King stated that “My Dear Fellow Clergymen” and “ I came across your recent statement calling my present activities unwise and untimely.” Dr. King’s letter is intended for the Birmingham clergymen who published an open letter criticizing his actions and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Yet, his letter becomes clear that Dr. King intends this…

Movement was strongly impacted by Martin Luther King Jr. Sitting in solitary confinement in Birmingham Jail, he strongly advocated against racism and worked to successfully improve conditions for African Americans. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s, Letter from Birmingham Jail, he achieves the message of racial equality through utilizing the rhetorical devices of addressing the counter argument, rhetorical question, diction, and imagery. King uses rhetorical question to strongly prove how unjustly…

There is a shockingly twist at the end of this novel that readers would be so disappointed once they read Nathaniel’s Hawthorne “The Birthmark”. There lived a man who loved science and was also a philosopher, Aylmer. He then abandoned his experiments for true love, Georgiana. Once this young couple got married, Aylmer obsessed over Georgiana’s imperfection, her tiny hand birthmark. Aylmer being a crazed scientist sees himself and feels he has the power to remove this imperfection. Georgiana…

Young Goodman Brown decides to go in to the woods because it seems that he has an important errand to run. Brown has been married to his wife, Faith for three months now but leaves her at the house for his journey. His wife seems to be very concerned for Brown as she cried, “Pr’y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed tonight. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she’s afeard of herself, sometimes.” Brown assures to his wife that he will…

a Bible with him at all times because he wants God to save him from his sins and the deal with the Devil. 4. The narrator calls Tom a violent churchgoer because he would pray loudly and he calls other church members out for their sins. (b) Tom’s approach to religion is similar to his approach to financial dealing because both were to get out of a bad situation (to get away from his wife and poverty and the other was to get away from the Devil). 5.…

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" surrounds a man who wishes nothing more than to remove a birthmark from his wife’s otherwise beautiful face so that she might embrace perfection. It reflects the ideologies of the society that Hawthorne lived in that was inundated in the fascination of science. Even more so, through “The Birthmark,” Hawthorne uses symbolism and allusion to venture deep into a more philosophical interpretation of his understanding of the human nature that he believes is…

Analysis of Letter From a Birmingham Jail In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was asked to go to Birmingham to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program and was arrested as a result of this protest. A letter from several clergymen arrived to him during his incarceration criticizing his work as untimely and unwise. Martin Luther King responded to their critique in a “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and explained the necessity of his presence. He explains that his actions were thoroughly planned out.…

Jonatahn Jake’s Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were going to a party, and then to Grandma’s house. “Take good care of Mollie, Jake!” they yelled as they left their humble home. Mollie woke up at the sound of the closing door. Jake sat up because he knew Mollie wanted to go downstairs. Mollie climbed out of her Green crib and climbed on Jake’s back. Jake then trotted down the maroon carpeted stairs and into the living room. Mollie was Blinded and astounded by the beauty and brightness of the tree…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, the protagonist Goodman Brown stumbles upon evil incarnate, the Devil himself. Throughout his journey in the forest with the devil, Young Goodman Brown had discovered a disheartening truth about his fellow townspeople. This truth would forever change Young Goodman Brown’s (and the audience’s) perspective of others. To begin with, Young Goodman Brown discovers the devil in the forest just outside of the town of Salem. However, even though the devil…

Throughout his speech, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. uses an arsenal of rhetorical devices when trying to persuade his audience at Riverside Church in Harlem of the injustices of the Vietnam war. The most convincing of these devices were his knowledge of ethics, emotion, imagery, and rhetorical questions to convince the congregation to speak up and break the silence about the war in Vietnam. Reverend King begins by planting a seed of confidence and trust in the congregation. He does this by…