From the Deviation With examining the “otherness”, characters and narrators show strength and determination to live their lives as seen fit by them, outside of societies standards. From the beginning of oppression to victory they teach others personal and individual respect towards new ideas that have changed the world for the better. Using Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston and We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks; we will see the powerful endurance and the potency of their message; revealing the individuals that reach out into the community they are standing for. Giving stamina to his cause, Martin Luther King Jr. shows in his letter from Birmingham jail that he will be diligent in his fight for racial equality. Letter from Birmingham Jail was written when the black man was segregated from the white man. Whites were considered superior and given privilege as a birthright. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses in his letter to critic clergymen, direct action. The call to direct action was dire to make change. Having said in his letter: “You may ask, “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” you are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that aa community which has constantly …show more content…
Gwendolyn brooks describes with empathy the position these ruffians need to act out. Their dismissal of education “We real cool. We, Left school, We”, is an expression against society for their abandonment and their lost hope for their future. Gwendolyn brooks characters’ rebel against the standard conformity of the general public to express their anger and to break free from the life society has already abandoned for their