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A 3 page paper which examines the emotional appeal of King in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. No additional sources cited.
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appeal to the reader. He uses logic, facts, and a great deal of emotion to urge the reader to understand his perspectives. The following paper examines paragraphs 14 and 15
of the letter, analyzing his use of emotional appeal and arguing that King is truly offering facts, and many of those facts address the emotions so that the readers would
begin to understand the truth of unjust laws. Emotional Appeal Kings letter is one that tries to illustrate why he, and others, have perhaps gone against the
law, which of course why he is in jail. For the most part King advocated always following the law and only then, through peaceful advances, could changes come for the
African American and all others who were of a culture and oppressed in the society. He knew a powerful stance needed to be made if change would come and as
such strong emotional appeal could not ultimately be ignored, opening the way for more logical and rational assessment. In paragraph 14 of the letter he begins by stating, "We
have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights" (King). This is clearly something of an emotional plea and something of a "wake up call" for
it illustrates just how long the African has been pushed down and ignored. He tells the reader that it is easy to be patient, or to tell the African American
to be patient when they are not the ones who have experienced the pain and suffering of oppression and prejudiced, a statement that is incredibly true. He then truly pulls
out painful realities to make a powerful emotional appeal: "But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers
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