Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the author of “A Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” wrote his remarkable letter sitting in jail, on the sides of a newspaper! With the year being 1963, Martin Luther King was a revolutionist of civil injustice (segregation). He peacefully rebelled against the government`s inequality, but was later arrested and detained in the Birmingham City Jail. Despite his jurisdiction, King continued to show his natural leadership skills by expressing his points even in his most desperate times by writing the famous piece “A Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” With his words that “Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber,” King not only brings unity through parallelism, but also allows for the development of an arguable point. When one uses a noun and a verb that looks very similar it tends to stand out and make the reader think intensely about what they are reading. Within the quote “Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber,” “robbed” and “robber” grab the reader’s attention and typically make the reader want to inspect the sentence (Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] Excerpts, 1963). Not only does the syntax of this sentence make it stand out, but also its’ true meaning. …show more content…
If society must protect the robbed, but punish the robber, then society has lost its humanity. Are there not humans who have troubling times at points in their lives? A lone mother stealing a loaf of bread to keep her family alive is not allowed to be excused, but rather punished? For are not all humans thieves of the Earth, why is not everybody punishing one another? Not only is this quote downgrading human sympathy, but also is quite the stereotype. This quote assumes that every robbed person is just. If that is the case, then most drug-dealers should get their vengeance