Notes from Underground

While sitting in a Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr wrote to his fellow clergyman. Through this letter, King answered the clergyman's complaints of how the demonstration of nonviolent civil disobedience was unwise and untimely in Birmingham. King defended the actions of the protestors and himself by addressing the concerns of those clergymen. He attempted this task by using scripture, history, and appealing to the intellect of his audience. King disrupted societal norms by nonviolent…

A Letter from Birmingham jail is often the text we think about during the civil rights movement. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. does a great job expressing his personal beliefs of what he is fighting for in the civil rights movement. Like many other writers of famous documents, I am pretty sure he did not expect this letter to get the attention it now gets. It reminds me of declarations from the 1600’s and 1700’s where grievances were sent to the King of England. He outlines his beliefs of justice…

Civil Disobedience and Letter from Birmingham Jail Two different men from two different time period made their writing a master piece against government brutality by using many literary devices in their writing to convey their message. Thoreau and King Jr. were famously known to be highly against the injustice of the American government legislative system, they tried to help and persuade people in their writing by incorporating a lot of literary devices. Their main writing goal is that “now is…

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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…

Martin Luther King Jr`s who had written an analysis of letter in April 16, 1963 “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” and Newman`s satisfied through liberal and religion in knowledge his understood for an important as an independent his goal for the better education in university “from Knowledge Its Own End.” In the good positive for individual his understanding for knowledge, and they understand the meaning in purpose and different of believing in his or her goal. Therefore, King and Newman`s…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown realizes that everyone has a capability for evil, and that there is no hope for mankind. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses ambiguity to leave the readers with questions, and to put them in a similar place of confusion and paranoia to Goodman Brown. While in the forest Goodman Brown has a run in with the devil, who shows him the maliciousness of those he had once thought pure (Hawthorne 4). He finds that nearly everyone in town had malignant…

In 1963, Dr. King wrote a letter to eight white clergymen while he incarcerated in Birmingham Jail. This letters, which widely known as an important text of the civil rights movement, was Dr. King’s response to clergymen's criticism and accusation, in which he answered why he came to Birmingham fought for civil right and explained the indecency of racial injustice. He utilized several kinds of rhetorical strategies in his letter to establish pathos, ethos, and logos, which makes his argument…

The day of the trial, Wright identified Bryant and Milam, who were known for kidnapping and murdering Till. Emmett's death became a point in the Civil Rights Movement . It awakened people from all regions of the USA, so people can understand the compromise between blacks and whites . Till’s trial was the first big racial story after Supreme Court's Brown v. Education. In 2004 the federal Bureau of investigation reopened the case although…

the article “Speech at The March On Washington” by Josephine Baker and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. both argue about discrimination and making a solution with non-violence such as protesting. To achieve true freedom, you must practice non-violence in order to protect your rights. To begin with, in order to achieve true freedom one must protest peacefully. According to the text “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Baker states “We must come to see that, as the federal courts…