Notes from Underground

"Justice too long delayed is justice denied." “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was written to religious authorities. MLK is writing this letter to explain his reason for civil disobedience. He justifies his acts by explaining how the oppressed can not stay oppressed. Martin Luther King incorporates a medley of syntax and figurative language in order to justify the non-violent protests against racism. MLK uses anaphora and parallelism in order to express the need for civil disobedience. In his…

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham Jail for many people to hear. Martin Luther King Jr. claimed that his non violent actions are as of those of an extremist in paragraphs 27 through 31. To deliver this message to his audience, Martin Luther King Jr. used different rhetorical strategies and examples of ethos, logos, pathos, and also Biblical allusions throughout those paragraphs. In the twenty-eighth paragraph, Dr.King said, “I am grateful to God that, through the influence…

Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” introduced the class to the battle of what is “just” in our lives and what course of action should be taken when unjust laws are being forced upon people. In “Deconstructing Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ and the Strategy of Nonviolent Resistance” the authors, Conra D. Gist and Karsonya Wise Whitehead, argue that King’s nonviolent strategy in the Civil Rights Movement was pivotal to the success and equality…

were adept communicators and convincers. They knew their audiences. They knew exactly what to say, how to say it, and when to say it. King’s sincere, assertive, and righteous tone make “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” a powerful justification of his actions, and worthy request for forgiveness and support from his peers in the church. The subject of racism is serious, so it must be discussed with a serious tone. His ethos as a church and community leader makes him appear as an authority that is…

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, that got murdered While visiting family in Money, Mississippi. Bryant’s grocery is where Till and his friends went in to buy something the others left out of the store, and Till was still left in the store getting some gum. As Till left the store he saw miss Carolyn wife of store owner coming out and not think clearly Till whistled at her. Bryant’s husband and brother in law kidnapped Till at gunpoint. His body was found in the…

segregated a false sense of inferiority”. After obtaining all the facts he pursued to negotiation. He negotiated with leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights to stop any demonstration of a racial act. A broken promise was all he gained from that negotiation, at that point he had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, but not first without self-purification. This in my opinion is one of the strongest traits about this whole plan. The negroes where accused of not…

working-class households in the Midwest and West during an age of increasing mechanization for upper-class. Steinbeck’s female characters, especially, convey his message of working-class unity. The Joads are typical 1930’s tenant farmers, forced from home because “one man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families.”(32). Upon reading advertisements of work available in California, the Joads buy an old truck for the journey. The trip quickly kills lifelong Oklahoman Grandpa…

A well known, inspirational racial activist, Martin Luther King Jr. is persuasive in his letter entitled “Letter From Birmingham City Jail.” In his letter, he demands that there should be equality for all people. King’s purpose is to persuade the other clergymen to fight for freedom for all the people of color. In his letter, King develops a bitter yet hopeful tone in order to accomplish equality amongst everyone. King effectively achieves his goal of persuading the others through his use of…

changes upon the life-changing journey into the dark forest. This story is not only indicative to evil within humanity but also, the Dark Romantics Era that helped illustrate this story. “Young Goodman Brown” constructed a story of a man suffering from a lack of faith in him, which then gears into discovering sin surrounding him at all times. Firstly in the beginning of the story, Faith (Goodman’s Wife) is demanding Goodman to stay beside her of all nights as he is getting ready to…

type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world” (Hawthorne 641). This is a very literal translation of the symbol that Hawthorne is trying to convey by having the minister wear the veil in his work. But in Young Goodman Brown, the symbolism is much more discrete, and a part of the…