ridiculed King for what he had done. King then refuted it with the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” King’s refute isn’t only for the eight church officials‚ but for the whole country at the time. The main points that effectively argue the article are that everyone is connected and King has a right to be in Birmingham‚ all the injustices that happen to blacks‚ and the need for direct action. The first point Dr. King addresses in his letter‚ is the reason for him coming to Birmingham‚ Alabama for the demonstrations
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Martin Luther King composed this letter with a specific end goal to clarify black’s aims of peaceful protests during the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King talks with an individual and instructed tone‚ tending to the ministers who talked bad about Dr. King and his member’s harmful protest against segregation in Birmingham. Injustice anyplace is a danger to equity all over the place. King writes in his letter to priests‚ clarifying that segregation laws against blacks are shameful‚ yet lawful
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was preach the gospel. In paragraph three of the Letter to Birmingham Jail it says‚ “Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world‚ so am I. compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my home town. Like Paul‚ I must constantly respond to Macedonian call for aid.” So‚ this is saying how King is there because he wants to preach how freedom belongs to everybody not just from Atlanta which was where he was born and raised
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by outsiders…” In this quote‚ from the third paragraph of the letter written by eight Alabama clergymen‚ the term outsiders is used. Early on‚ this creates a label for Martin Luther King‚ outsider. Throughout his Letter From Birmingham Jail‚ King is able appeal to ethos in order to refute his title of “outsider” and generate a connection with his audiences‚ the clergymen and the people of America. King is able to do such a thing by alluding to multiple passages from the Bible as well as the figures
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where is there a better place to write a long letter than in a jail cell? Optimistic and bitter‚ Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” inspires the audience to come together to make a change and defends the people involved. King expresses his hope to the nation through his tone‚ rhetorical appeals‚ and rhetorical tools. Kings optimistic and bitter tone inspires and defends the audience throughout his letter. Martin begins his letter with optimism about the future for him and his
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Passage A of Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter to Birmingham is composed of specific stylistic strategies that effectively convey his central idea that the black community’s protests against segregation are justified as it has suffered from widespread societal restraint for centuries throughout history. King’s argument in this passage is facilitated by means of a syntactical structure composed of a long list of the abundant struggles that have faced blacks as well as an appeal to the legal and moral
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In this letter‚ Martin Luther King utilizes both the rhetorical field of religion‚ and the rhetorical element of audience as a combination to support his arguments against the clergymen and the white moderate’s view of the civil rights movement as a whole. \ By using religion in various points of the text‚ King uses the clergymen’s own knowledge against them to prove his cause just. He provides examples of lesser known stories to place a metaphorical spotlight on the clergymen in particular. The
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I feel like Martin Luther King Jr. was mainly direction his letters to the people in Birmingham‚ Alabama. But as a whole he was talking to everyone in America‚ dealing with racism. He was talking to people of the churches‚ explaining that is not okay to call themselves Christians‚ but still being involved with racism‚ slaves‚ judgment‚ and hatred on colored people. I believe that the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr. letter was his was of protesting while he was in the Birmingham Jail. King was
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1. Martin Luther King Jr. used a lot of ethos in the Birmingham letter. For example when he says “But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth‚ I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. He is showing that he cares about what they think and see their criticisms as being genuine and sincere so he wants to answer their questions in a reasonable time and manner. Another form of ethos he uses
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From Behind Bars. On Good Friday in 1963‚ Rev. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. led 53 blacks on a march in downtown Birmingham to protest the cities segregation laws. The Birmingham police arrested all of the demonstrators‚ including King. This caused the clergymen of Birmingham to compose a letter pleading with the black population to end their demonstrations. This letter appeared in The Birmingham Newspaper where the imprisoned Martin Luther King read it (Amistad Digital Resource). In response‚ King
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