Monster By Walter Dean Myers Chapter Summary

To portray logical appeal, King used synecdoches and anaphoras in his “I Have a Dream” speech to support his judgments. Aimed toward the blacks, the question “when will you be satisfied?” drew attention to the racial issues in America. King replies to this question with the anaphora that “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality; we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one; we can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”; we cannot be satisfied as

I have a dream today!” (King 3) The recurrence of this expression shows his view point on changing the freedoms for the African Americans. Along with this reappearing phase, King also used “One hundred years later…” to bring the pasted situations into the present day. King showed how African Americans weren’t treated any differently than they had been in the past.

While speaking, King was given encouragement from the crowd to continue on talking about the dream he had (Younge). The crowd is what gave him the confidence to go on. I feel that if it had happened to be a different crowd, King’s rhetoric would have changed. The most important piece might have been held back, if it wasn’t for the crowd’s motivation.

“Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria” - Alan Greenspan. New York author, Alan Greenspan, here is explaining that the threat fear presents is really no different than the state of intensity caused by euphoria. In Andrew J. Hoffman’s anthology, Monsters, there is substantial evidence that both fear and euphoria are inflicted upon men, by female monsters. The two threats men typically face against women are temptation and emasculation. Thus, in mythology and folklore, female monsters exemplify the impulse of desire (sexually) for men, and male weakness. These are creature that are lusted after and yet, still feared because of their power. Men find female monsters both fearsome and euphoric and will always threaten their dominance and control.

On December 22 Alguinaldo Nesbitt, was murdered when Bobo Evans and James King were trying to rob his drugstore. Steve Harmon allegedly went into the drugstore to check for cops. We the jury have decided that Mr. Harmon is in fact not guilty of felony murder Mr. Nesbitt. Many testimonies stated that Steve Harmon didn’t participate in this crime.

In, “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, King writes about the criticisms placed on him by the Clergy and to all the white Americans who believe they are superior and do not wrong. For example when King writes, “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” (King 3), King is speaking to the clergy who dislike his motives and actions. King is stating his innocence and that he is doing nothing wrong and that action needs to be taken in order to initiate a change. The purpose of King’s letter is not all to inspire a change in America and just address the criticism towards him and his actions but it is also a call to action. King takes on the time of a courageous, righteous, and disciplined man who

Like instruments in an orchestra being brought in one by one to a melody that fills the ears of its listeners and drives out any other thoughts, King then targets the white moderate population, the white voters. He tries to place this audience into the shoes of the black people by giving vivid descriptions of the trials they have been going through and invoke empathy in their hearts. He says: "When you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your brothers and sisters at whim . . ." This statement brings up an issue every culture has had to deal with, death. Death in the American culture is one that is associated with loss and grief. King deftly imposes this loss on the shoulders of his white audience making it clear to them the pain the black people have been dealt.

King continues on by affecting the reader, on an emotional level, by going through and explaining some of the unending amount of torturous events that the black community had to endure daily. In an essay by an anonymous writer it says, “He uses a dialog that reaches into the pit of your soul and places you on an emotional rollercoaster.” When he says, “when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse,

     King starts his letter by saying ?While confined here in the Birmingham city jail.? This is important because King is making a strong point right away in his letter. He is saying they

In both pieces of writing, they have an American Dream that they are trying to achieve. King wants all men to be treated equally as they have been created equally. He says “I say to you tomorrow, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It’s a dream deeply rooted in the

For instance in the Letter from Birmingham Jail, King writes about this need for tension to finally have the chance for negotiation, which must start by provoking this uneasy nature in society. He also vividly portrayed the violence and crimes that African Americans suffer from, which would make most people extremely troubled. He suggests that this is the only way things could evolve for the better and stays away from the usually

King creates an empathetic link when he utilizes the words "When you have" (King 2) followed by grievous moments in a typical African American life. For the purpose of showing the leaders why the Negroes cannot wait any longer for civil justice. Rather it is not that simple, King chose to write this to create an empathic link between the religious leaders and the African Americans. He does this with the intention of having the leaders feel the urgency and the burning pain the oppressed race has gone through. Simply, the African American walk of life is encroached by the actions and power of whites, creating an emotional scene for the leaders. King also rejects the fallacy that the leaders created with the "Isn't this like condemning..."(King 3) anaphora. The leaders believed that the peaceful actions of the civil rights group should be condemned for they participated in violence. King felt that this statement did not make any logical sense, but instead of outright saying it, he simply repeated instances where peaceful actions were taken place, but the subject faced consequences. In fact, by comparing the situation to the Christian icon Jesus, King exposes the fallacy of the leaders. In a broader sense, the parallelism between Jesus and King is noticed. Biblically, Jesus came down to Earth from Heaven to save sinners by acting as a sacrifice and dying on the cross. On the other hand, Historically, King came to Birmingham from Atlanta to aid the Civil Rights Movement by protesting, thus sending him to jail. Both came down to save a group, but to do so both were

book: “Why We Can’t Wait”, King includes a letter he wrote in a Birmingham jail, after he was

To complement their arguments, both men employ the help of allusions. King alludes to the Bible as his way of empowering his followers and encouraging nonviolent practices. “we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (King 2). It is important that King make these connections in his speech because it allows him to receive respect from his audience. Because many consider the Bible as higher order, these allusions add to King’s ethos, making him more charismatic. King also emphasizes pathos by alluding to Isaiah 40 verses four and five: “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountains shall be made low…” (3). He provides his audience with multiple sources of hope throughout his speech, bonding the African American society together.

He was not without flaws. He overstepped his boundaries, and as a result, his pitfall.