Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass are both widely known for their fight to free the African American. Frederick Douglass fought to free African- Americans from slavery while, Martin Luther King Jr. fight to free African- Americans from injustice law which were implemented upon them. Both King in his “letter from Birmingham Jail” and Douglass in his “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” used metaphors to persuade their audiences. King was a powerful speaker as well as an intelligent writer. His uses of metaphor put a vivid picture in reader’s eyes. For example in page 3 King used imagery and metaphor to describe the pain he felt when he had to explain to her daughter about the racism and inequality. “Ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky” (page 3). King used this metaphor when he had to explain to his daughter why she is not allowed go to the public amusement park that was advertised on the television. He saw his daughters started to tear up when she was told that Fun town is closed for colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her …show more content…
In page 33 he described slavery as “horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out.” Douglass viewed his world differently after he became an educated man. His intelligence made him depressed as he understood what it meant to be a slave. He was denied the most basic human rights that even the poorest white man enjoyed daily. As described in his narrative, he felt like slavery was for a lifetime and once you are a slave, you are a slave for your lifetime. After he started educating himself he learnt how immoral slavery is; however, it did not give him any way to get out of that lifelong chain. Douglass has described this condition as a horrible pit, because there is no way to get out of slavery unless you can run