Sinners In The Hand Of An Angry God And Martin Luther King

Dedication can be challenging to evolve; pursuing dreams and accomplishing what one sets out to do can also be difficult. In “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. both Edwards and King think of ways to compel their audiences. King accomplishes his goals through ethos, hidden persuasiveness, and alignment; while Edwards accomplishes his goals through repetition, figurative language, and tone. In order to understand

Dedication can be hard to evolve; pursuing dreams and accomplishing what one sets out to do can also be hard. In “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. both Edwards and King think of ways to compel their audiences. King accomplishes his goals through ethos, hidden persuasiveness, and alignment; while Edwards accomplishes his goals through repetition, figurative language, and tone. In order to understand this paper

Effectiveness is the reason for most argument pieces. Edwards argues in “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” that everyone must be completely devoted to God or else God will send them to hell. Martin Luther King’s piece “Letter from Birmingham Jail” he is responding to the clergymen’s criticism. Both “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by King and “Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards persuade their intended audience on their subject and believe what they believe; one is more effective

Fear The Mind     Effectiveness is the reason for most argument pieces. Edwards argues in “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” that everyone must be completely devoted to God or else God will send them to hell. Martin Luther King’s piece “Letter from Birmingham Jail” he is responding to the clergymen’s criticism. Both “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by King and “Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards persuade their intended audience on their subject and believe what they believe;

effective piece of writing is one in which the audience takes a stance on the side that the author intended them to. Both Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” and Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” are considered effective pieces that target two different audiences, in different eras, in attempt to reach different effects. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Edwards alike attempted to write effective pieces to convince their readers of their personal stance on

and Martin Luther King Jr. are similar; they both speak out for what they believe in and try to get others to see from their point of view. King spoke for equality for all. King wanted the segregation to end. He did so in a nonviolent manner. Both in MLK’s piece “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and Jonathan Edward’s piece “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was effective uses of complex sentences, and allusion. To understand which is more effective one will first need to understand, Martin Luther

author wants the reader to feel that his way is correct. The goal of the author is to leave an effect on the audience in order to convince them to change their views. Both pieces: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King Jr. and “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, have a appeal to all men being created equal, and yet their pieces are different in their own contextual ways. In order to understand which piece is more effective, one must first understand the history

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Martin Luther King Jr. writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to address Clergymen during April 16, 1963, after being jailed for parading without a permit. King’s purpose is to have equality, and justice for negroes. He adopts an indignant tone in order to present unjust law that Clergymen were making. In a similar fashion, Jonathan Edwards, a Valedictorian at Yale, writes “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to address puritans. Edwards purpose is to persuade the Puritans

affects the audience or not determines how well written the piece is. To understand how “Sinner’s in the Hands of an Angry God,” by Jonathan Edwards and “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” by Martin Luther King Jr, were effective on their audience, the pieces must be further analyzed. To understand Edwards speech, background must be given first. In the sermon, “Sinner’s in the Hands of an Angry God,” given by Jonathan Edwards in 1741, the leader of the Second Great Awakening, is trying to convince the

Edwards: Not the King of Emotion? To determine how effective a piece is, one must look to the effect on the audience. Effectiveness is not only how convincing the argument is, but also the longevity of that effect. In terms of influence, both the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. contributed to major religious and political movements of their times. Jonathan Edwards, a well-educated and respected Puritan preacher