People from Montreal

reason I choose this piece of work by Hawthorne, because after reading the story and understanding what was going on, it had some flaws that I personally can relate too, but don’t like it all. I feel that judging someone that you like isn’t right at all from whatever the problem is. Just a brief overview of The Birthmark, Aylmer has a huge issue with his newly wife birthmark on her face. The story of The Birthmark starts off by making me wonder what the main problem is. I thought The…

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King was writing a response to a group of clergymen that had written an open letter in the paper about his unlawful protests. He was in jail for protesting in Birmingham without the proper permits. In the open letter, the clergymen, “called for the community to renounce protest tactics that caused unrest in the community, to do so in court and "not in the streets.”(Rothman). King’s response, which he wrote while in jail,…

In Martin Luther King Jr’s. Letter from Birmingham jail, Dr. King responds to the eight clergymen who asked him to end his protests and rely on alternative solutions such as negotiations in the court. Martin Luther King Jr. effectively persuaded his audience that the persecution against the black race is unethical using strong techniques of logos, ethos, and pathos. First, Dr. King utilizes logos to convince to the clergymen of his right to be in Birmingham like any other human being. Second,…

The piece of literature chosen for this close reading is Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4th in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, the location chosen for the setting of Young Goodman Brown. Hawthorne is known for is his works that contain haunting details that focus on the depravity of man, yet are skilfully crafted. The use of detail and many times allegory in Hawthorne’s stories makes him one of the most studied writers. This is to be expected as…

In May of 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sought not only justice for his people but craved a world where the ignorance of racism and segregation was behind him. In doing so, he attended rallies and protests across the country until one day the judges of Birmingham prosecuted and imprisoned him for protesting the treatment of blacks. Here, he writes a response to clergyman calling on King for an “untimely and unwise” time for protests to have taken place. Some evidence he uses to promote the…

Steinbeck is a celebrated author around the world. John Ernst Steinbeck III was a American Novelist that won the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize during his prime and achieved this while passing through some roadblocks in his life. Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on the 27th of February in 1902. Born with his 3 sisters, his only siblings, his father worked as a treasurer of Monterey County and his mother worked as a schoolteacher. After high school graduation, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford…

Era: The Letter from the Birmingham Jail. In this letter, Dr. King penned the words: “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Dr. King understood that people have power. He understood that people drive the wheels of reform. He understood that people form the collective conscience of society. He understood that it is…

Martin Luther King Jr., a remarkable pastor, activist, humanitarian, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, wisely says, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a case confronts the dusty town of Maycomb when a white woman, Mayella Ewell, accuses Tom Robinson, a black man, of raping her. Evidence shows…

of a hand-shaped birthmark on his wife’s right cheek that previously did not bother him. As time goes on, the birthmark occupies Aylmer’s thoughts increasingly and begins to damage Georgiana’s beauty in his eyes. Georgiana’s birthmark transforms from a mark that Aylmer “contented…with washing away” to something that he chose to be the “symbol of his wife’s liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death” (1022). The growing distress of Aylmer’s feelings and Georgiana’s anxieties towards the…

Fear of a black nation examines the compound political race that took part in Montreal, Quebec in the 1960s. This book opens the eyes and ears of the readers due to the publication of race and how it belongs in Montreal. The black community was very active in the community, which has a huge impact and influence on black history. The two notable events that mark their territory in Montreal are “the congress of Black Writers,” and the “Sir George Williams Affair.” The book represents the height…