King speaks almost as a "holy" advisor because of the fact that he is a minister. King uses text in his essay that is mostly biblical. For example, he writes, "Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the 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 own home town." Which means that King is trying to get freedom from everywhere not just this one town that he wants national recognition for what he doing and trying to change the way the world sees segregation between blacks and whites and wants freedom King uses two types of pathos, the straight emotional content but then later on used pathos as a
Specifically, the arguments that King Jr. uses to defend his untimeliness, his willingness to break laws, and his extreme actions are appropriate for the audience and help him build credibility, which ideally will move his audience to action. In “Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen,” the clergymen state that the action that King Jr. has taken is unwise and untimely and he explains in two different ways why
King mentions, St. Thomas Aquinas; a Christian philosopher and theologian, “Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust” He alludes to St. Thomas Aquinas to not only make his argument stronger, but to support persuade his audience, primarily religious leaders that segregation “distorts the soul and damages the personality”. King then elaborate more about segregation on a more profundity level by citing Martin Buber; Israeli philosopher terminology of segregation “segregation substitutes an “I-it” relationship for an “I-thou”. This supports his position and convinces his audience by stating segregation, thus downgrades “Negroes” to the status of things and not as people. In response of the eight Clergymen
The approach thrives on presenting reasons on a certain subject and then arguing out. In order to comprehensively exhibit each of the three approaches, this paper refers to. " The letter from Birmingham Jail" is an emotional letter addressing the issues and critics of white clergymen thrown at Martin Luther king Jr, about his non-violent demonstration actions against injustice and racial discrimination among black Americans in Birmingham. Injustice is the backbone of all the social evils taking place in Birmingham and Alabama cities. Injustice is the violation of another person's right with the satisfaction of the other individual.
This letter appeared in the Birmingham Newspaper. In response, Martin Luther King drafted a document that would mark the turning point of the Civil Rights movement and provide enduring inspiration to the struggle for racial equality. King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” strives to justify the desperate need for nonviolent direct action, the absolute immorality of unjust laws together with what a just law is, as well as, the increasing probability of the “Negro” resorting to extreme disorder and bloodshed, in addition to his utter disappointment with the Church who, in his opinion, had not lived up to their responsibilities as people of God. King's justification to the eight clergymen for protesting segregation begins with a profound explanation of their actions, “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue”. The actions of the African American people are overdue and very well planned as King had explained in the letter.
In this quote he states, “Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their ‘thus saith the Lord’ far beyond the boundaries….I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town”, Dr. King references passages from the bible to validated his battle against injustice throughout the continental U.S. He is letting the clergymen know that wherever there is injustice he is going to be there The last rhetorical device used would be apophasis. “I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.” This quote basically means that the clergymen will understand the injustice that is happening around them. He hopes that the clergymen will not ignore or overlook the injustice; that they will look at facts and base their judgment off the facts instead of what society says.
By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. Richard was willing to leave school without a diploma instead of this. White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept the way of life that other black people did. Richard’s relatives never understood Richard and because of this he was alienated from his family and his own people. Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it.
We black and they white." This shows how there is a “colored line” and how racism divides the “white” and the “black”. In “Native Son”, racism is unavoidable. Bigger is painfully aware that he is socially handicapped by his black skin, and expresses his frustrations when he says, “Every time I think about it I feel like somebody’s poking a red-hot iron down my throat. Goddammit, look!
However, there is more of a biblical connection than just his faith. St. Stephen, the alleged first sufferer of the Christian religion, was tortured until he died, after wrongly being accused of saying callous words that oppose the Holy Land and the ruling decree. Stephen Kumalo is also a victim of the injustice in society. He is a black man who is trying to fight biasness of the white world in order to find his son
Jesus Villalobos Jr. ENGL 2323 Professor Paul J. Niemeyer 02/21/2011 “Hope in the Black Boy” Racism is something that affects almost everybody on earth. Skin color is what separates or scare people from socializing with other people that are different than themselves. In the poem “The Little Black Boy”, a black mother is instilling in the boy faith in himself. Being black isn’t going to stop you from joining god in heaven. The essence of this poem is hope, faith, and acceptance.