Theodonia Marshall November 6, 2012 The World House The World House, a piece of literature written by Martin Luther King Jr, A great civil rights activist/leader, writer, and philosopher. In the passage, he talks about an idea from a famous novelist who died which was “A widely separated family inherits a house which they have to live together.” (J. L. Judith Nadell 597) (J. L. Judith Nadell 597)" \s "A widely separated family inherits a house which they have to live together.\"<>" \c 1 Martin Luther king then builds upon and talked about what he thought about that. In the passage he quotes “We have inherited a great “world house” in which we have to live together”-Black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, …show more content…
Martin Luther King then quotes “Nothing could be more tragic than for men to live in these revolutionary times and fail to achieve the new attitudes and the new mental outlooks that the situation demands”CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) TA \l "Nothing could be more tragic than for men to live in these revolutionary times and fail to achieve the new attitudes and the new mental outlooks that the situation demands\”CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) (King 599)" \s "Nothing could be more tragic than for men to live in these revolutionary times and fail to achieve the new attitudes and the new mental outlooks that the situation demands\"< CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) >" \c 1 In this quote, I believe he is stating that in times of change people must be educated to survive, or it will be detrimental to the movement. Then, in the literature he goes on to say that “One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many
On Martin Luther king's letter that he wrote in Birmingham jail he told his Fellow Clergymen he made a campaign in where they are going to follow 4 steps in order to get their Civil Rights without violence. Him and his followers are getting tired of waiting in order to get their Civil Right. And the promises that the leaders of the economic community broke. On paragraph 3 it says,” In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps :1) collection of the facts to determine whether injustice are alive;2)negotiation;3)self-purification;and 4) direct ation. In Martin Luther King Jr. campaign instead of using violence they use something else.In order to get their Civil Rights.Because he want his fellow Clergymen to not think that everything has to be dealt with violence. Also on paragraph 7 it says, “We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God Given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet like speed towards the goal of political independent, and we still creep at horse and buggy pace towards the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. This quote explains that they
In his book A Chance in the World Steve Pemberton tells us about growing up in the Massachusetts foster care system. Steve was removed from his mother 's care as a toddler and went from the life of an abused and neglected foster child with no self identity, to a successful, professional man with a family of his own. Steve breaks his story into three parts.
As a young girl, Esperanza is a young girl who looks at life from experience of living in poverty, where many do not question their experience. She is a shy, but very bright girl. She dreams of the perfect home, with beautiful flowers and a room for everyone. When she moves to the house of Mango Street, reality is so different than the dream. In this story, hope (Esperanza) sustains tragedy. The house she dreamed of was another on. It was one of her own. One where she did not have to share a bedroom with everyone. That included her mother, father and two siblings. The run down tiny house has "bricks crumbling in places". The one she dreamed of had a great big yard, trees and 'grass growing without a fence'. She did not want to abandon
In this case, Martin Luther King is attempting to show the audience the urgency of changing society.
“I want to be like the waves on the sea, like the clouds in the wind, but I’m me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin. I’ll shake the sky like a hundred violins” (60). In the story “The House on Mango Street”, the author Sandra Cisneros uses sentences full of imagery, metaphors, and word games, to show how self definition is a result of the people and places surrounding you. This is represented throughout the book when Esperanza wants to change her name, living in a male dominated society, and when she wishes for a new home.
thought enlightenment was crucial for a healthy society. Martin Luther King Jr. grew in up in the segregated south and dedicated his life’s work to fighting for equality and societal justice for African-Americans. He often staged protests and marches to ensure that people of color were treated as fair and equally as their counterparts. Martin thought social enlightenment to be crucial to his cause. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin eloquently describes to his fellow clergymen why giving up his freedom, after being arrested during a protest, was necessary and imperative in the fight for equal
First of all, Martin Luther King Jr. usesd a rhetorical strategy of repetition. King is known for his use of repetition, reference his “I Hhave a Dream” speech. Furthermore, r Repetition is used to get his your point across, and to make the reader remember it. In the letter heit states, “Was not Jesus an extremist for love,” and “Was not Amos an extremist for justice,” and again it says, “Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian Gospel.” King uses the “was not” and “an extremist” to apply effect on the situation. He wants to apply the emphasis on how these key figures in history were extremist, just like him. Again in this letter, Martin Luther King Jr.’s uses reptition in his quote again, King sayings, “let him march,” “let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall,” “let him go on freedom rides.” Martin Luther King Jr. uses the words “let him” to intensify the fact that the people should just let the Negro protest. Martin Luther King Jr. says to just let the Negro be, King statesquotes, “if his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence.” Therefore,So Martin Luther King Jr. wants to make sure he informs the people, to either let them protest peacefully or there will be violence.
MLK is trying to persuade blacks to be more nonviolent. If they try to fight back, they will be outnumbered and defeated. Additionally, they will face even more difficulties. Instead of tackling the whites, they should tackle the issues they are facing. MLK’s philosophy makes more sense for America because he’s once again trying to show how nonviolence could be more effective than violence by stating that the bitterness would be even more
Dr. King also makes it a point to share his ideas and hopes for the future as he talks about brotherhood and justice for all of “God’s children” not just limited to African Americans. To illustrate the idea of the struggle, King compares the feelings and “discontent” of the African Americans to the feeling that one gets during a very hot summer. He then uses autumn to compare the relief that it brings after the summer to the relief that will come to the people of color once they’ve gained freedom and equality. King makes sure to address the fact that the event is not just one in which the Negroes are venting nor are they just feeling the need to get something off their chest, but an event where they expect change to take place soon and thereafter. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual (Dr. Martin Luther King, 1963). In addition to addressing the oppressors, Dr. King also addressed his people and the ones supporting the movement. Drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred is something that Dr. King encourages the people not to do; he does not want the need for freedom and the weariness of struggle to cloud their vision. The fight is one in which King believes should be done with the heart and soul, not with fists and
Martin Luther King Junior’s a letter from a Birmingham Jail was him expressing his motivation for the protest against tradition. King’s arguments are founded on emotions and the appeal to culture as well as tradition. He utilizes rhetoric on certain subjects towards his audience while making arguments that question the ideas of traditions that the United States is founded on. As King stated, “Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depth” (273). This context secularly widened the audience for this letter from not just African Americans, but a community of races. King suggests to create for a
Martin Luther King uses a lot of repetition in his speech. They are scattered throughout but very close. One of the repetitions in his speech is “I have a dream.” He uses this phrase to show what he sees in the future of America. One of the phrases he uses with it is: “I have a dream that one day this nation will and live out the true
Martin Luther King Jr is an African American civil rights activist during the 1960s. I decided to do my analysis on his speech "I Have a Dream" because this speech is very important in American history. The speech has a simple context. "I Have a Dream" speech was given during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. Dr. King's main purpose was to make a change in white and black citizens during the Civil Rights era. He wanted to end racism in the United States and wanted everyone to accept the change in a non-violent way. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold those truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” (Jr).
By analyzing his identity and angle vision, also the genre of this piece and Martin Luther King’s purpose. Martin Luther King’s identity is that simply of a man who wants to stand up for what is right. He wants all men to be created equal. His identity is arguably the one of the most influential Civil Rights Movement leaders. This piece is one of the most well-known pieces of American history. It is open to the people, once as a speech and now as a written piece. Which makes it a public genre. Martin Luther King’s purpose and his dream is clearly stated, “… that all men are created equal”. He makes that very clear what he hopes the outcome to be someday. The rhetorical context highlights the main point of who Martin Luther King is and what he wants to
This ideal is reflected in Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech. In this speech, given to the American public in 1963, King reflects this ideal by saying “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood” (King Jr). In MLK’s ideal society, he dreams that people of all colors, races, and backgrounds will one day be able to coexist as equals, working together to make the best society possible. However, this complete unity can never be reached, as the fight for power gets in the way. This thought is shown in Lord Of The Flies. In the beginning of the novel, the boys are happily functioning together, However, as time goes on Ralph and Jack begin to fight over who should be the chief of the island, with the divide between the two growing bigger. This hits the crux of the conflict when at a meeting, Jack says ”’Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief?’ He looked up expectantly at the boys ranged round, who had frozen” (Golding 127). Once nobody says anything, Jack says “‘I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too’...He leapt down from the platform and ran along the beach, paying no heed to the steady fall of tears; and until he dived into the forest Ralph watched him” (Golding 127). Jack’s need for power become so strong that he
Accordingly, Martin Luther King, in this speech spoke of injustice, preached with passion, and stressed the importance of non-violent protest so the voices could be heard. The author often spoke of how police brutality was the norm and that someday this would change. People believed in his every word and his every action. Martin Luther King, in his speech said, "With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountains of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that will be free one day” (King). The structured remarks demonstrated