Pathos In Letter From Birmingham Jail

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King was inspiring person who change lives. The body of his work is something another man, may not achieve. He was isolated in cell with limited supply to create this letter. But perhaps, such a setting made his work seem all the more impressive due to the fact that his words were able to reach out and affect so many out there outside the unforgiving bars confining him. Martin Luther king uses several strategies to argue that all me should be treated equal. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter, written to the Clergymen from Prison, he uses ethos to establish his credibility on the subject that all men should be treated equal. He starts off the letter by him saying this “I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are …show more content…

To drain the clergymen of some sympathy they may have. Knowing they are not on his side he grasps they’re attention by saying” While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, “confined is very catchy and leaves the reader in miserable mindset that why such human is being hog -tied in a cell. King shortly strike’s again by saying “we were the victims of a broken promise.” King want the clergymen to understand why he traveled so far, for something that could’ve been handled in house. Dr. King describes his emotional disappointment in the church, he says.” Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.” What the white churches was doing, pretty much acting incent or should I say knowing its wrong. But believing its ok because they worship God. King has a right to be disappointed. Early Christians didn’t treat everyone different they were all one. Kings was a smart man who knew if he could throw blows in a kind way. He could most likely win the clergymen over. I later find something that touch my heart, as a young African American. King with as kind hearted as possible says” I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes.” King didn’t want to be known as a bas extremist. He actually seen it as a different kind. Refers to God as an extremist of