Analysis Of The Writing Of Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech while standing at the feet of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. His uplifting speech is one of the most admired during the civil rights era and arguably one of the best in American history. On August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the true American dream: equality. Although the video of his oral spectacle is powerful, the written document portrays exactly how brilliant Martin Luther King Jr. really was. Like an Architect who uses his stones to build strong palaces, Martin Luther King Jr. uses every word, every sentence, and every paragraph purposely to convey the necessity of a civil rights

Many authors use rhetorical devices and strategies to get their point across and try to convince the reader to believe in their perspective. It can also be used to get emotions from its readers, but that isn’t really the whole point of persuading someone. For instance, Martin Luther King Jr. uses an abundance of pathos in order to make the reader or clergymen feel sympathy towards the black people. Along with pathos, he uses logos and a bundle of hypophora. In order to obtain the goal of persuasion, Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter contains rhetorical devices.

It's the 1960's; American society is being torn asunder by civil unrest involving the struggle for equality at home and an inhumane war in Vietnam. In the midst of such turbulence, Martin Luther King Junior argues that American involvement in the war in Vietnam is unjust. He poignantly examines the thesis using appeals to ethos logos and pathos.

Imagine: You are sitting on the couch watching television and your daughter is sitting on the floor playing and watching the show with you. A commercial comes on for a local amusement park called “Funtown”, and your daughter exclaims that she wants to go to this amusement park. Sorrow fills your heart because you know that you will have to explain to her that she is not aloud to go because that Funtown is only open to the white children and their families. This short story reveals King’s usage of pathos, one of the rhetorical appeals, to reveal the raw emotions that King had to endure when informing his daughter of this.

In his letter from the Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King makes a reply to the eight white religious leaders of the South. He describes situations in which Negroes, despite the mistreatment and injustice of whites and policemen, desperately strive to attain "American freedom." As he explains the brutality and reactions of Negroes he tries to use persuasion and rhetoric to back up his argumentation. He does this by listing persuasive ways including subjective, objective, and interpersonal claims.

The pinnacle of the civil right’s movement had produced many of the most influential and well-known activists in the nation such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After his assassination, people took their grief to the public and called for acts of violence to deal with the sudden loss. As their anger continued to rise, Cesar Chavez published an article, in which he urged people to come to their senses and take a less violent approach to the situation. Chavez states that only through nonviolence will people continue to strive towards the peace that they and Dr. King have so long looked forward to. He appeals to his audience by relating to their commitment to God and struggles in everyday life in order to garner their support. He also

What would you do if you were a part of being treated poorly and segregated from others? The speech from “I Have a Dream” is by Martin Luther King Junior. This is about the Civil Rights movement and the audience was a giant crowd at the Lincoln Memorial Washington in D.C. The letter from “Letter From Birmingham Jail” is by Martin Luther King Junior. He got put in jail because of protesting in public. The audience was 8 clergymen at the Birmingham Alabama Jail. My purpose is using logos and pathos to compare the “I Have a Dream” speech ,and the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” letter.

First, Martin Luther King Jr. establishes his credibility as an honorable and trustworthy man to effectively convince his audience of his moral and just actions. To begin his letter, he acknowledges the fact that the clergymen see him and his allies as “outsiders coming in” (King Jr. 1). However, he counteracts their false claim by introducing himself as “president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state” with “some eighty five affiliated organizations across the South and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (King Jr. 1). By doing so, King Jr. puts himself in a position of authority to demonstrate to the clergymen that he is not just an average man trying

"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."1

Martin Luther king Jr. uses the word hope in the sense of optimistic attitude and anticipation of positive results. He has used the word several times in his letter because it has the power to help people heal. King has mentioned it mostly in pathos and logos.

Desegregation is something that many different people over many years had to fight long and hard for, and Martin Luther King Jr. was one of them. King, the author of “Letters from Birmingham Jail”, was an ordained Baptist minister with a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University. He was an activist for racial equality and led many protest for desegregation. in the mid 1950’s and in the 1960’s. The letter, was composed while he and hundreds of other demonstrators were imprisoned for protesting against the treatment of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. It was written in response to eight of his fellow clergyman who questioned King’s methods of protesting while at the same time supporting the final outcome. Throughout the letter, King brings light to many serious ethical problems in America. One in particular, is a major cause of the Civil Rights Movement and is still present in part today: racial intolerance. Martin Luther King Jr. uses several literary elements such as different forms of persuasion, tone and extrinsic proofs to accurately handle the ethical problem of intolerance that African Americans were forced to face on a daily basis.

On April 3rd, 1968 in Memphis,Tennessee at the Mason Temple many protesters came together to hear Martin Luther King Jr’s speech. His purpose was to get his point across, blacks should have their freedom like any other white man or woman. Martin Luther King Jr. went on to say how happy he is to be living in this time period, able to see the period of life unfold. His purpose was to raise awareness that, something is happening in the world,things are going to start changing. Martin Luther King Jr’s use of ethos and pathos is successful in showing that the world is changing in many ways. Most of all he uses logos or logic very well, giving us the info on how, people are starting to rise up in masses and make small cities bigger like New York City, Atlanta, Georgia and many other cities.

I'm going to be talking about the differences in the writing techniques. Why are these traits so important to have and what kind of people will they appeal to. While reading the speech by Martin Luther King you can tell that he is using ethos and a little bit of pathos. Ethos is a writing technique that appeals to the audiences emotions. Martin Luther King uses this through out his speech conveying the urgency of havin unity. In some parts saying " Chains of discrimination" creating a symbolic kind of vision that really makes you feel a ceartain way. Also in Michelle Obama's speech she talked alot about the children and how she wanted the kids of the nation to be better while over coming challenges and finding new break throughs making the

Today in the United States, we are told that we are one of the best when it comes to having freedom; of course that was not always the case. As a nation, we have come a long way; but unfortunately we still are not all equal. As for 53 years ago, Marin Luther King Jr. was the man trying his best to pave the way for having equal freedoms for everyone, especially blacks. With the letter that MLK wrote, it ended up being more than a letter, but a piece of literature that was eventually published in his book. He is excellent when it comes to his words, he was able to speak his mind and portray his words emotionally. His thoughts were well thought out and written passionately, especially since they were written in a jail cell. This letter started a pivotal movement in the civil rights era, and is something people will always be talking about for years to come.

Martin Luther King Jr. uses the letter to defend his strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism and oppression. He distastes that people have the moral responsibility to break unjust laws in a peaceful manner. The protests galvanized by the deaths of Michael brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others are trying to accomplish. Many Americans find themselves at a loss to understand the depth of the anger and frustration of the protesters. I believe there was no difference between the African American community and the Caucasian Americans because both of them do not have the right to vote, and there were treated the same in everything. In the movie Selma there was a lot of difficulties, especially dealing with segregation and injustice. Dr.