According to The University of Michigan's law education, African Americans are seven times more likely than white Americans to be falsely convicted of serious crimes due to their race (law.umich.edu). Bryan Stevenson who is a human rights lawyer and author wrote the memoir by the name of Just Mercy. This piece focuses on the idea that the criminal justice system is discriminatory. In this memoir, he defends and fights for citizens to protect their rights as a person. Bryan Stevenson beautifully utilizes strong word choice, repetition, and emotional appeal to emphasize and persuade the readers that the efforts to fight institutional cruelty and raise the most vulnerable to a “higher ground” is what matters most. By inserting strong word choices in Stevenson's literature it emphasizes the emotions and pressure he was experiencing due to the cases he had to work with. Words such as anguish and misery highlight the tensity he was feeling while trying to defend the innocent and convicted children. For Example, …show more content…
Bryan Stevenson thinks these children become dehumanized and only viewed as adult criminals and as a result society and how it offers no sympathy. Stevenson has experienced a lot of discrimination in his life seeing these cases stack up is affecting him emotionally. For example, “I do what I do because I’m broken, too. My years of struggling against inequality, abusive power, poverty, oppression, and injustice had finally revealed something to me about myself” (Stevenson 290). Stevenson knows what it feels like to be in their situation and has gained the motivation to do what's right to help these innocent people. Seeing these cases is hurting him because he knows that this is a major problem that needs to be fixed. This is where he comes into